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Originally Posted by Utah Bob
True....but, we have significant experience in special ops and should have (diplomatically) pushed hard to assist them with the planning. We do have some good contactsand have trained a lot of their officers over the years. Maybe that was done and they just refused. Maybe we'll never know.
Well, actually I suppose we will know eventually. Some of us probably already do.  |
I'm with you. I wish our help was accepted more regularly, but the world being what it is, this is probably going to be the new normal in that part of the world.
I just had a briefing today from the SDO/DATT from DRC. It doesn't matter how much help we offer, how much money we provide, how much training is done, until these nations can get corruption etc under some kind of control, it is going to get a hell of a lot worse before it gets better. Add in the tribe mentality, the fact that China will give them money with no talk of human rights violations etc, we are going to continue to put out the small fires, while the wildfire rages.