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Ironically, it is an excessive fear of casualties that has painted that mark on our soldiers abroad. The pattern was set in Somalia. There, a disgruntled warlord who didn't like the direction of the American operation arranged several ambushes in which United Nations soldiers where killed. When American troops pursued his forces, he struck at them, leaving a dozen Rangers dead...
Seven months later Clinton stunned some of the victims' families when he told them during an Oval Office meeting that he was surprised the soldiers were trying to apprehend warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid. By then, he said, the U.S. was supposed to be emphasizing diplomacy over confrontation. "When the President has troops in combat, that must be his No. 1 priority, and he must be fully aware of what they're doing," Larry Joyce, whose son died in the fire fight, told TIME recently...
...Will there be any stars, any stars in my crown?" Socialist, yes, decrying British mercantilism that turns everyone "from a citizen into a consumer. And politics is a commodity." Apocalyptic disgust? Plenty, even at the end. He told Bragg he had named his cancer Rupert, for Murdoch, the media warlord...
SOMALIA. When the U.N. branded warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid a criminal it intended to arrest, American troops spearheaded the effort to seize him. But then his forces killed 18 U.S. service members last October, prompting Clinton to announce that all American troops would go home within six months. Shortly thereafter, the U.S. provided a jet to fly Aidid to a meeting of clan chiefs trying to cobble together a new regime. The flip-flops angered Italy, which also had troops in Somalia. "The U.S. didn't know how to calibrate the use of force," says Italian Defense Minister Fabio Fabbri...
...behind may not be so lucky. The scaled-down force will limit itself to securing a few strategic ports and airports and, where possible, to guarding relief supplies. Even those diminished goals may prove overly ambitious, say some military observers. They argue that with a few well-timed attacks, warlords like Mohammed Farrah Aidid could drive the U.N. forces out. Though the warlord continued to meet last week with other militia leaders to search for a political solution, most observers believe that he will never settle for anything less than supreme power...