There are reports the Obama administration has put US ground troops on the Syrian border. One presumes the Iraq border, though Turkey might be an option, despite Erdogan and the Turkish leadership being Sharia law Israel hating Islamists who refused to allow our Fourth Infantry division to transit Turkish territory in the 2003 Iraq war, thus prolonging the war and costing American lives. Still, Barack is president now, and perhaps that is enough to quiet Islamist sensibilities. Wherever they are, if they are committed to Syria, we will find everybody on the ground there an enemy, including not only the Syrian army but the rebels Obama wants to win, as well as the rebels Obama does not want to win. Our guys will be fired at from all sides, and with the Obama administration’s rules of engagement will not be permitted to shoot back for fear of hitting somebody. The similarities to Viet Nam are striking. If our guys are committed we will have another Viet Nam, with no guarantee we won’t be taking casualties for another ten years.

Yes the similars are easy

Though the opposites attract

And there is no Gulf of Tonkin

Though the time scale does protract

When the combat boots hit shoreline

There is cheering and great show

Of the patriotic spirit

And the cry “The Hue to go!”

Ho Chi Minh is dead and buried

General Giap has hung ‘em up

And we haven’t fought Achilles

Since old Hector was a pup

In the Nam we knew we’re fighting

Little guys from way up north

And at times guys in pajamas

Laid ambushes and so forth

So if we put boots in Syria

We’d have the whole bunch to fight

And the killing Yank soldiers

Gives them all such great delight

I can see Obama order

All our guys to hunker down

Way out in the wilder boodnocks

Far from villages and town

Put them in the Bekaa Valley

From the hills there’s quite a view

And he’ll re-enact the drama

Of the French at Dien BienPhu