More Somalia

[Max Sawicky]

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