More Somalia

Max Sawicky sawicky at bellatlantic.net
Mon Sep 17 13:08:59 PDT 2001


I read "Blackhawk Down." There is no question that the U.S. policy during the mission to snag Aideed was to shoot anybody in the way, but there also seems little doubt that women and children were among the combatants.

While in hindsight it is clear the country would have been better off if no U.S. soldier had ever set foot there, it is also true that leaving the Somali's to their own devices meant subjugation of the population to the tyranny of vicious street gang leaders (with heavy automatic weapons). So the idea of leaving them all "in freedom" is a cruel joke.

mbs

do you have citations for those first two quotations?

thanks, j



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