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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette logo/New York Times: Officials say the Pentagon foresees at least two more years of combat in Somalia
WASHINGTON — Amid its escalating campaign of drone strikes in Somalia, the Pentagon has presented the White House with an operational plan that envisions at least two more years of combat against Islamist militants there, according to U.S. officials familiar with internal deliberations.
The proposed plan for Somalia would be the first under new rules quietly signed by President Donald Trump in October for counterterrorism operations outside conventional war zones. The U.S. military has carried out about 30 airstrikes in Somalia this year, twice as many as in 2016. Nearly all have come since June, including a Nov. 21 bombing that killed over 100 suspected militants at an al-Shabab training camp.
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Update: US plans to fight in Somalia for two more years (Middle East Monitor)
WNU Editor: Two more years?!?!?! They have been fighting and killing each other in Somalia for decades. They are not going to end in two years.
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Ending a war requires a perspective on how to end it and what kind of conditions are to be created afterwards that result in a durable peace. The US national security/foreign policy establishment has no such perspective. It's quite possible that the last US president who had such a perspective was Franklin Roosevelt who definitely had post war plans for rebuilding major areas of the world in a sort of global New Deal, but those plans were never realized because he died too soon.
The US has been "stuck" in Somalia for 25 years now, what's 2 more years.
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