Why The U.S. Should Not Go Back To Somalia

Black Hawk Down: How A Moral Mission To Halt Famine Became America’s Worst Military Disaster In Africa -- The Telegraph

When President George H W Bush ordered the first of 25,000 US military personnel to the Horn of Africa late in 1992, it was seen as a moral mission to bring aid to starving people by force.



Warlords carving up Somalia were blocking or stealing food deliveries, and more than half-a-million people had already died of hunger.



Less than a year later, the mission had turned into such a disaster that the US has avoided any similar interventions since, even as Somalia has again fallen into famine.



Operation Restore Hope, and its successor Operation Continue Hope, saw thousands of US boots on Somali soil to beat back clan warlords and allow aid in.



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My Comment: Could not have said it better .... and you know what .... Somalia in 1993 or Somalia today .... nothing has changed, and nothing will change 20 years from now.

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