Consider the latest news from America’s war zones, still spreading across the Greater Middle East and Africa. We’re talking about the largest concentration of American troops in Somalia since the infamous Black Hawk Down debacle of almost a quarter-century ago. Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, U.S. troop numbers (now considered a “secret”) are rising into the 14,000-16,000 range with at least 3,000 new troops recently sent in by the Pentagon. For those in charge of American policy in that ever-vaster region of conflict, the options always seem the same. By now, this has become something like the modern American way.

Source: Huffington Post November 27, 2017 02:03 UTC