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The Gadfly is knee-jerk suspicious of this, and for good reason:
U.S. Military Considers a Mission to Train Libyan Security Forces
By THOM SHANKER
Published: November 17, 2013
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — The United States military is considering a mission to train Libyan security personnel with the goal of creating a force of 5,000 to 7,000 conventional soldiers and a separate, smaller unit for specialized counterterrorism missions, according to the top officer at the United States Special Operations Command.
Speaking on Saturday at the Reagan National Defense Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library here, the commander, Adm. William H. McRaven, said no final decisions had been made about a training mission to support Libya, where militia violence has increased in recent days.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/18/world/africa/us-weighs-mission-to-train-libyan-forces.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Does The Gadfly truly have to dig back in to, not even distant, American history to analyze the miserable outcomes of every scenario where American military "advisers" were sent in to other nations that were embroiled in internal strife, to train that country's military, to validate his view that this is not a very good idea?
Look how many fucking years we have spent trying to train the Afghan security forces. And they are still nothing but an ragtag army of Gomer Pyles and Barney Fifes.
When will we fucking learn our lesson that all the goddamn bombs and missiles and drones and Marines and military advisers in the world can't fix all of these other country's problems?
When?
The Gadfly would be happy to perform and compile the research, and it would not be very taxing, demonstrating that this country's track record of sticking it's military industrial complex pig snout in other country's slop troughs is abysmal at best, but will it make a difference? Highly unlikely.
This bullshit just needs to stop - once and for all.
----TFG
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