Now More War in Somalia

U.S. troops going back

Born in Arizona,
Moved to Babylonia — King Tut.

The lines from Steve Martin’s spoof “King Tut” must form the basis of the Biden regime’s knowledge of history in the Middle East and general vicnity. Reversing President Trump’s partial withdrawal, he’s sending American troops back to Somalia to bring them the bounties of freedom, democracy, liberty and pop culture.

Reported Defense One:

Full-time special operators will help train local forces to conduct counterterrorism strikes against al-Qaeda  affiliate al-Shabab, reversing Trump’s order to rely on shorter-term rotations of troops to fight the terrorist group.

“This is a step that rationalizes what was essentially an irrational arrangement that we inherited,” the senior administration official said. “We have lowered the risk, in the view of our experts, to our personnel and increased their efficacy.”

Whatever that means. More than 30 years of involvement in Somalia haven’t been enough to turn it into a model democracy, but another 30 more sure will do the trick!

The only good thing this awful U.S. intervention has produced was the great war movie, “Black Hawk Down.” Otherwise, it only has been death to our troops and Somalians, and wasting tens of billions of dollars.

As to Al Qaeda, this just came out from Real Clear Investigations:

In waging a multi-billion dollar covert war in support of the insurgency against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, top Obama officials who now serve under Biden made it American policy to enable and arm terrorist groups that attracted jihadi fighters from across the globe. This regime change campaign, undertaken one decade after Al Qaeda attacked the U.S. on 9/11, helped a sworn U.S. enemy establish the Idlib safe haven that it still controls today. 

A concise articulation came from Jake Sullivan to his then-State Department boss Hillary Clinton in a February 2012 email: "AQ [Al Qaeda] is on our side in Syria." 

Sullivan now is Biden’s National Security Adviser. So is Biden allied with al Qaeda, as in Syria, or against it, as in Somalia? Who knows.

I’m reminded of the scene in “Bananas,” the Woody Allen movie, where’s on a plane about to air drop into a Latin American country during a revolution and two CIA guys say they’re supporting both sides.

Next to this, Biden’s Ukraine insanity almost makes sense.