Word: mogadishu
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When the going gets tough, pundits and politicians seem to head for the hills. As unrest and strife continue in southern Mogadishu, calls for an end to the United States commitment to the United Nations operation in Somalia mount. From Capitol Hill, Senators Robert Dole and Robert Byrd question why we're there. In an editorial, The New York Times ponders whether it's time to come home. Former President Jimmy Carter lambastes the violence of the United Nations forces...
Americans Die in Mogadishu...
...does. It is colonialism. But no one has come up with a better idea for saving countries like Somalia from themselves. Trusteeship means unified authority imposed by a real army taking orders from a single capital. That is certainly better than the disarray now so painfully on display in Mogadishu...
Much is on display today in Mogadishu. The limits of humanitarianism. The hollowness of the U.N. Bloody proof that in this era of good intentions, good intentions are not enough...
...violence in Mogadishu calls U.N. policy into question...