Send the Marines

United States Marines with 34d Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 31st  Marine Expeditionary Unit at Urban Operations Training FacilityMarines used to be sent to fight, as Tom Lehrer (the funniest Leftist ever) noted disapprovingly, but humorously, in the early 1960s:

Now they’re being sent to the South Sudan for some amorphous sort-of rescue, maybe-fight duty.

Soon, as the military satire site the Duffel Blog reports, they’ll be purely decorative.