While that may seem trivial compared to the 500, 000 troops and many billions that the U.S. had to throw into the breach when Iraqgate spawned Desert Storm, de facto if not de jure UN command and rules of engagement for this operation virtually assure that it will be a debacle.
After Sanika's birth, the Ahmed's were told NHS rules on overseas patients meant the hospital could only offer the operation if the family paid for it.