Nigeria, Feb. 15 -- Information filtered through a few weeks ago, that "a small team" of United States (US) soldiers were in Nigeria. On Tuesday, 10 February an additional information was that 200 American soldiers are being deployed to provide security for the small team. I am sure that soon these 200 would need a thousand US soldiers to give them cover.

The troop numbers are nothing to worry about, except that this was the same story of American involvement in Vietnam. In the 1950s, President Dwight Eisenhower sent 740 troops to that country. A decade later, President John Kennedy sent 9,000. Eventually, a total of 2.7 million American troops "served" in the Vietnam War. So, the US tradition of swelling the rivers of its troops is, lik...