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...last week attitudes toward General Mohammed Farrah Aidid suddenly changed...
...thug Aidid stands in the way of peace." -- U.N. LEAFLET DROPPED OVER MOGADISHU BY U.S. HELICOPTERS...
...hindsight, President Clinton undoubtedly wishes he'd stopped that U.N. Security Council resolution on Somalia last June -- the one leading to the pursuit and capture of warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid. Defense Secretary Les Aspin has admitted that he regrets vetoing the military's request for more tanks for Somalia in September -- tanks that might have prevented Aidid's massacre of American troops on Oct. 3. And the Administration might well be having second thoughts about the so-called Governors Island accord of July 3, which committed the U.S. to send at least a few troops to help restore democracy...
...went in saying they had no intention of disarming the warlords, this despite the pleas of U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros Ghali. When the less competent U.N. forces took over from the initial American force they had to face well-armed warlords such as General Mohammad Farah Aidid...
Preserving U.S. credibility is Clinton's other stated objective. He foresees an "open season on Americans" if "aggressors, thugs and terrorists . . . conclude that the best way to get us to change our policies is to kill our people." Which means what? A Defense Department official says hunting down General Aidid, the warlord responsible for targeting America's soldiers, is "definitely still an option." But the State Department insists that the increased U.S. troop presence is merely meant to protect the forces already there, and Clinton has signaled a willingness to negotiate rather than kill Aidid. "We have no interest...