Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni stressed earlier today that the 100 U.S. combat troops deployed to assist and train his forces in their fight to defeat Joseph Kony's LRA are more like 'personnel' than troops, since they wont actually be fighting.
This comes after near-media panic on Friday that this would become another Vietnam, or some nonsense, and further speculation that we are entering Uganda because George Soros has oil interests there, or some crazy conspiracy theory bullshit.
Our reasoning for aiding Uganda is simple: they have contributed thousands of soldiers to the ongoing war in Somalia to defeat the al-Qaida linked al-Shabab terrorist network that has wrecked havoc in the country for decades now and we're stepping up our assistance to their fight as thanks, and because that's what allies do.
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