So your argument is that b/c child trafficking is prolific throughout the world, we should just not offer assistance with this one? Or that b/c it’s a Commonwealth that we should let the UK (which I’ve seen no offer of assistance from in the news) should handle it?
I get that you think it’s a drop in the bucket in the grand scheme of things, and I know you are correct. But my issues, is why are we (The USA), so worried about drug trafficking, weapons trafficking and not human trafficking. What really irritates me is that we have all these SOF units, designed, equipped and trained to go in and help with situations like these globally, but on this very forum (all things SOF) everyone has been about “Fuck these kids”. It’s not just this incident or just the fact that it is kids; it’s the big picture, what is the point of having all this awesome SOF, if we don’t even want to use it on saving some school kids stolen from their families and being held by Muslim extremist? Maybe my heart is bleeding, but I think if we are going to spend the money, it might be a good place to start with the children who will grow up to remember “when my own country didn’t shit to save me, these Americans did vs supporting countries like fucking Pakistan (IDK brownie points for the future vs funding for future enemies).
That all said, the bottom line is, we don’t have to spend millions of dollars and it wouldn’t take much to get these kids back. I probably agreed more with the Troll’s post as for the “why we shouldn’t get involved, or the at least get the Nigerian gov to pay the bill” but to be honest, I find it hard to believe that this is even something that is being argued. If SF and some IC guys don’t want to go do it, hire a damn PMC to do it, and take the funding to pay for it, out of the SF and IC budget. I mean shit, 4-6 trainers/advisors working with a Nigerian Btn, and some old spook who knows the area with a few hundred thousand cash to get a pin-point on the whereabouts of these kids, and this shit would have already been over.
The child trafficking throughout South America, Asia and Africa, is ridicules and something should be done about it, and if countries don’t want to spend the money, or put boots on the ground, they should at least deregulate the PMC side of things, and allow people who do give a shit, to get the funding and go do the “right thing”.
Sorry for the rant, and no I really don't want to take SF's budget away, just wondering where the lines got crossed from "liberate the oppressed" to "not our problem".
My $.02
