Would it bring it closer to home if you understood that we have troops committed to finding the LRA, a terrorist group that sometimes operates in Central African Republic?
NOT A BIT "closer to home" AT ALL.
Our military does ALL sorts of things. I sometimes think they get involved where they have no business being just to "stay ready" and remember how to do battle. Maybe I'm wrong.
I USED to get SO annoyed at the deployment of our troops to SO MANY gawd-awful places for (seemingly) NO REASON.
WHY are OUR troops hunting the Central African Republic terrorist groups? What have THEY to do with us?
I suppose it doesn't really matter as we will NEVER, EVER be told the truth.