President Barack Obama’s plan to send 100 military troops to Uganda
risks miring the United States in another protracted war, a top
Republican lawmaker warned on Sunday.
Senator John McCain said that with almost 100,000 US troops in
Afghanistan and the drawdown from Iraq still not complete, Obama’s plan
to send troops to act as military advisers for Ugandan government forces
fighting the rebel-led Lord’s Resistance Army was ill-advised.
“I worry (that) with the best of intentions we’ll somehow get engaged
in a commitment that we can’t get out of. That’s happened before in our
history,” he told CNN television.
McCain,
an American hero of the Vietnam war, agreed that the Lord’s Resistance
Army has been “guilty of unspeakable behavior and the human rights
organizations all over the world want this to stop.”