Obama Sends Troops to Niger but Ignores Syria

The White House foreign policy is such a joke. We are supporting the French who have prevented Mali from falling to Islamist rebels but we still ignore Syria and the 70,000 people that have been killed already.

About 40 U.S. military personnel have arrived in Niger, President Barack Obama told Congress on Friday, the last of a deployment of about 100 to help coordinate intelligence sharing with French forces operating in Mali.

The U.S. forces are equipped with "weapons for the purpose of providing their own force protection and security," Obama said, and are there with Niger's consent.

Why can't they send 40 military personnel to Jordan or Turkey to coordinate intelligence sharing with Syrian rebel groups? Maybe he is waiting for the death toll to reach 100,000 before he cares about anything happening in Syria.