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So we're now committed to an almost-complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
Whoopee! It's about time.
Yet, coincidentally, we've just committed ourselves to send about 100 troops to Uganda.
The president assures us that this African deployment is merely to help Uganda rid itself of militant rebels and is a justified use of force to resolve a humanitarian crisis -- that it is time-limited and that our troops will engage in combat only in self defense.
Well, we have had assurances before and then spent upwards of 10 years of war in Afghanistan and eight years in Iraq.
Besides the senseless tragedy of dead and wounded troops, our reckless campaigning as world cop has alarmed and antagonized friends in the rest of the world and cost billions of dollars we didn't have and had to borrow.
Oh, well, our grand-children and great-grandchildren will be paying for that -- if we are able to leave them with a livable world to pay for.