We'll discuss our expanded African presence and ask if we need 3,000 troops and air bases and drones and special ops teams in Africa now? Or do we face the possibility of making things worse? We'll also talk about Syria. While the fighting and shelling and civilian deaths continue, it's now turned into a war of words between the US and Russia. Retired Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer and Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco join the show