The Hill: Top US general on Africa: Airstrikes not enough to defeat al-Shabaab
The head of U.S. Africa Command (Africom) on Thursday said that U.S. airstrikes against al-Shabaab fighters in Somalia are not enough to defeat the al Qaeda-affiliated militant group, and that local forces need to “step up.”
“At the end of the day, these strikes are not going to defeat al-Shabaab,” Marine Corps Gen. Thomas Waldhauser told lawmakers during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.
“But they are going to provide the opportunity for the federal government and the Somali National Army to grow and assume the security of that country.”
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WNU Editor: He is right. You need a lot of boots on the ground, and that is not going to happen for the U.S. in Somalia.
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