WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

In May 1961, then President Kennedy ordered 100 Special forces troops to a country called South Vietnam as advisors only with no combat responsibilities. By Dec 1968 there were 540,000 troops in South Vietnam engaged in an undeclared war. By 1974 when the last of the troops were evicted, more than 58,000 had been killed.

I have never been an antiwar minded person, but, without a total committment to prosecute a conflict, I do not believe in sending troops to "advise".

On Oct 14th 2011, President Obama is sending 100 Special Forces to Uganda to act in a strictly non combat role as advisors in order to stop a Ugandan warlord from killing and looting.

Three questions:

1) Has anyone in the US Administration read any history at all?

2) Has not the present experience in IRAQ and Afghanistan taught the US a lesson about limited military engagements?

3) have all of our leaders lost their minds?

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?