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...oppose anti-gay bigotry in all spheres of life, including the military. However, many supporters of gay rights are eagerly enlisting in the cause of imperialist militarism, which is a threat to all of the oppressed, especially now with the U.S. RACIST "White man's burden" intervention in Somalia and as Clinton gears up for terror bombing in the Balkans...
...drama was set in motion by a seemingly innocuous message, sent to Washington from Mogadishu. Colonel Peck had taken a break from his duties as chief spokesman for the U.S. military forces in Somalia to write the Senate Armed Services Committee with a request to testify in favor of the military ban on gays. When Scott learned of the pending appearance, he feared disaster. During the past year, while studying journalism at the University of Maryland, he had written several articles for a student publication, the Retriever, that, he says, "left no doubt that I was gay." Scott was afraid...
...melted into the countryside but lately have resumed depredations inside the towns. The continuing looting and shooting has prevented most displaced Somalis from returning home to their farms and fields. Particular targets of the armed thugs are relief agencies and their workers, who are among the few people in Somalia still possessing cash or other valuables. Over the past four months, four foreign aid workers have been killed, more than in the two years prior to the Marines' arrival...
...which increases the stakes, and the risks, for the U.N. Operation Restore Hope pioneered a new type of American military intervention, one driven by humanitarian concern rather than economic or strategic interests. Taking over in Somalia now poses a test case for the ability of the U.N. to damp down the internecine wars, actual and threatened, that have burst out since the end of the cold war. Are the suffering people of Bosnia less deserving of help? Then maybe even some of the strife-torn republics of the former Soviet Union? Perhaps -- if the Somalia mission can actually find...
...SOMALIA: Half a Success...