Not my point. Remeber what the reason behind the Black Hawk down and the Mogadishu mile?
Peace negotiators were killed in a building with innocent civilians, intentionally killed. Taht lead to all the people turning on us. But no one holds clintons feet in the fire over it?
I don't either. War is an ugly ugly thing, where the ugliest tend to win.
you wanna be pissed at Bush over waterboarding? be my guest. But look at your kids (or young members of your family) and ask yourself; Is burying them worth saying we were nice to murdering terrorists? B/c that's what it kept many of us from having to know.
He didn't start it. It was dumped in his lap. What happened in Mogadishu was an attempt to bring order to a country with no effective government. And the situation was untenable.
Somalia was and is..a mess.
So we abandoned them. The UN decided we were going to help and when it got hard, clinton showed his color, turn tail and ran. I'm certain all the people that have been taken hostage haven't properly thanked him for that.
There was nothing to abandon. No government. No nothing.
Clinton was not going to nation build. And that was required.