WTF??? I'm talking to the moderator not to you dumbass. I started writing the definitive post and it suddenly disappeared...wtf?
Okay, a repeat; According to the left, Benghazi was nothing more than a bunch of locals who decided to let off some steam with whatever they happened to have on their person. All because some film maker that no one had every saw or heard of made a video. No help was sent and a cover up was launched to protect Hillary's malfeasance in office. That is the leftist version of Benghazi. If I was a democrat, I'd stay away from Benghazi.
These combat deaths have led to some questions being asked; Why was the US in Niger? When did we get to Niger? What happened on this patrol?
There are news accounts going back years on why we are in Niger. Here is a three year old link.
https://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/Afr...-security.html
Yep, Obama sent US troops to Africa not Trump. Kind of the reverse of Somalia when Bush sent in the military, Clinton changed the mission and refused to support the troops, a massacre was the outcome and the democrats attempted to blame Bush's decision instead of Clinton's concentration on his willie. We currently have about 800 US troops there now.
Obama sent troops to Niger, because Niger is centrally located, to monitor several different African countries around it. Niger has uranium (you know, what Hillary sells to Russians), lots of uranium...and oil, tin, gold and other strategic minerals. We wanted to keep the government in power rather than have another coup with a radical Muslim government in control. Or a radical left wing government in control. We have two drone bases in Niger along with the French. Haven't heard about the French have you? That's why we're there.
According to what I've read, this was another routine patrol by the Niger military. There were American and French troops along for the ride. This was a routine op which is what bites you in the ass. According to the reports, the village elder delayed the departure of the patrol for a time. Upon leaving the village a force of 50 fighters attacked the patrol with vehicle mounted weapons, motorcycles, and RPGs. Ambushes happen. How you get out of them is what counts. In this case the ambush was broken. Four Americans, five Niger soldiers, and no French were killed. 20 plus fighters were killed.
A sad outcome for those soldiers but predictable. Keep doing the same thing like they did in Somalia and sooner or later the enemy will figure out how to hurt you. This decision was made by the locals (Niger) and tacitly agreed to by the US and French soldiers as they went. No decisions were made at the US level except maybe the drone pilots may have been in Florida. Trump is blameless (and Hillary would have been as well) for what happened.
This actually happened over two weeks ago but leave it to the media and the democrats to politicize things. The wounded had already been medivaced and the dead were on their way home before the democrats smelled an opportunity like a buzzard.
What didn't happen was months and months of warnings like Benghazi. What didn't happen was local US politicals hamstringing rescue operations that night. What didn't happen was a complete lack of any attempt to provide backup to those under attack in Benghazi. What didn't happen was a photo op for Obama and Hillary in which they lied to the world about what happened. No, there is no similarity between Benghazi and Niger except Obama's name is still spelled the same way.
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