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2008-11-21 Africa Subsaharan

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Posted by Besoeker 2008-11-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 We're gonna bring it alright. Thank you SSgt Ignacio, GOD Bless.

Posted by Last Breath Farm Resident 2008-11-21 02:36|| 2008-11-21 02:36|| Front Page Top

#2 I wonder what our military guys in Djbouti are doing these days, besides COIN?

Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-11-21 10:57|| 2008-11-21 10:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Obama will have boots on the ground shortly, no worries.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-11-21 11:23|| 2008-11-21 11:23|| Front Page Top

#4 a good book that talks some about this is , Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts by Alan Kaplan

Posted by Albert Spusotch7979 2008-11-21 11:48|| 2008-11-21 11:48|| Front Page Top

#5 I am not sure if "Cold War Mode" is the correct way to describe this. We tend to put everything in terms of the last big war we fought and not address the fact that this is an entirely new form.

I have some friends who have been through these programs. One had been in the US for training for several months and all he ever would tell me about was how the Americans really really know how to do breakfast right.

So they are learning something, even if it is to love pancakes with all their heart. :)

Posted by sjb 2008-11-21 12:53|| 2008-11-21 12:53|| Front Page Top

#6 How could taking down the Islamic Courts operation, or weakening it, "backfire"? Don't get it.

Somalia is the All-Time Galactic Class S**thole, so even doing nothing more than roughing up our enemies, grabbing intel and people there, and using it as a training ground for us and others seems like a sure-win to me.

Alaska Paul, I'm fairly sure our guys, and some of our true allies' best guys, have been doing all sorts of very interesting things out of Djibouti for several years now. More than a hunch, and of course not hard to guess.

Posted by Verlaine 2008-11-21 15:06|| 2008-11-21 15:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Decades now Verlaine and more of late, in the region at least. But like the French, Belgi's, Portugese, and Brits before us it's been little more than pissing in a gale. Difficult to bridge a thousand years of advanced civilization with a people and culture in denial. All should be very concerned about this AFRICOM experiment I assure you. Bloody Zulu Isihlangu heraldic symbol be damned. Bring an entirely new meaning and definition to the word quagmire.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-11-21 15:19|| 2008-11-21 15:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Yes, Besoeker, we need an emblem with an eagle or buzzard, holding lightning rods and arrows, heh.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-11-21 17:43|| 2008-11-21 17:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Lightning bolts, not rods, LOL!

Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-11-21 17:44|| 2008-11-21 17:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Do they want the Hot War version?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-11-21 17:48|| 2008-11-21 17:48|| Front Page Top

#11 Turkey Buzzard Paul, a big old Turkey Buzzard.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-11-21 18:21|| 2008-11-21 18:21|| Front Page Top

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