Word: somali
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...truth is, while I was worried about the danger of intervention in the Balkans, I didn't consider Somalia to be a problem for the Lone Remaining Superpower. I saw pictures of skin-and-bones Somali gunmen and scoffed. I thought we could walk in, mop the place up, and go home. I was wrong...
...worse. Demonstrating blissful ignorance about Somali politics, we tried to impose a ready-made TV dinner of a political settlement on the country. Then, when one clan leader called our bluff, we got all red in the face and tried to destroy him. All we destroyed was our credibility...
...initially heroic humanitarian effort in Somalia deteriorated into an inept, farcical manhunt worthy of the Three Stooges and reminiscent of the 1989 Manuel Noriega fiasco. The search for Somali warlord Mohammed Farah Aideed reached a comic low when 50 elite U.S. Army Rangers, acting on special "intelligence," stormed a building rumored to house Aideed's rebels--only to find a bunch of U.S. foreign aid workers, whom they promptly arrested...
...prospects for civil order dim, Aideed and the other warlords will reassert themselves, likely causing at least a partial return to preintervention conditions. The terror will return for the Somali people; the horror will return to our TV sets. Then we will have to choose: either turn a cold shoulder, or send back our troops...
...they U.S. Rangers or Keystone Kops? An elite squad of 50 U.S. Army troops, hunting Somali warlord General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, stormed a building in Mogadishu last week and trussed up nine men and women. The detainees turned out to be U.N. aid workers. A Pentagon official admitted the predawn raid was "not particularly auspicious for the Rangers...