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US military mission in Somalia could take seven years to complete
cnn ^ | 04/14/2019 | Ryan Browne,

Posted on 04/14/2019 5:28:20 AM PDT by BenLurkin

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To: BenLurkin

Lol. 700 years is more like it.


21 posted on 04/14/2019 6:41:10 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: BenLurkin
Somalia voted in Sharia law in 2009.
Somalia is overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim like al-Qaeda.

I don' understand why the Somali citizens would want to oust al-Qaeda and support a Govt. of Infidel collaborators.

Muslims in Somalia have hatred of Christians on a scale of normal Jew hatred for most other Muslims.

When we get involved there ,IMHO, it is worse than getting involved in Afghanistan. - Tom

22 posted on 04/14/2019 6:49:50 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
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To: BenLurkin

Destroy world islam or it will certainly destroy us.


23 posted on 04/14/2019 7:04:43 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Psalm 73
"George H.W. Bush should have never intervened in 1992." And Bubba complicated things when he half-assed the military component (Black Hawk Down, anyone?) - let's wait on the UN to help us....

The direct blame is with Les "no tanks, no apcs, tight ROEs" Aspin and the "maid" Maddy Albright (we don't want to intimidate....patrol in class A's....>No guns on our ships or sailors when in port).....Yep. Liberals kill.

24 posted on 04/14/2019 7:41:37 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Quit calling them liberals, progs, socialists, or democrats. Call them what they are: COMMUNISTS!!!!)
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My position on all the conflicts: If you’re not willing to go full out war then stay home. War can only be won by changing the culture of the opposition. That’s how we defeated Japan. Germany is starting to rise again. What will the future lead to in Europe?


25 posted on 04/14/2019 7:49:02 AM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: onedoug

Lotsa luck with that one. My eyes could not be rolling any more if they were bowling balls.


26 posted on 04/14/2019 8:04:57 AM PDT by mostly_lies
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To: mostly_lies
Where do you fight the enemy ? ON THEIR HOME GROUND.

Slack jawed faggots need not apply

27 posted on 04/14/2019 8:33:50 AM PDT by onona (It is often wise to allow a person a graceful path.)
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To: mostly_lies

So? Roll away.


28 posted on 04/14/2019 8:49:20 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: DCBryan1

No it wasn’t. We should have never been there at all on that humanitarian mission. It had been a Soviet client state and we had zero national interest there.

Somalia was a tar baby


29 posted on 04/14/2019 8:58:08 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: onona

Slack jawed faggots, huh?

The greatest enemy we actually have are mouth breathing imbeciles who fall for the phenomenally stupid idiocy that we are not “safe” so long as some crazed muslim with an AK 47 is screaming “Allahu Akbar” in a cave somewhere.

Give me ideas on how to fight THOSE enemies, since they do far more damage to the country than some dirt poor Somali somewhere. The worst enemies we have are the drooling imbeciles who think wrapping themselves in a flag and “supporting the military” means cheering for invading every planet on earth.

Thanks for the “slack jawed faggots” though. It made me grin.


30 posted on 04/14/2019 9:09:16 AM PDT by mostly_lies
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To: mostly_lies

“Thanks for the “slack jawed faggots” though. It made me grin.”

Jesse Ventura said it in the first Predator movie.

L


31 posted on 04/14/2019 9:11:19 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Lurker

tnx. sometimes the humor here is so subtle it is hard to know if the responder is genuinely a cranial null set or is just pretending to be one with a fake personna.

This guy has me guessing, still.


32 posted on 04/14/2019 9:19:57 AM PDT by mostly_lies
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To: Candor7

Since she’s so hot on meeting with dictators like Erdogan, to discuss trade, and business deals, let’s send her to Libya, so she can bring peace to the region.


33 posted on 04/14/2019 11:23:19 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: mostly_lies

Lol. It’s either reformation or crusade. Nothing in between.


34 posted on 04/14/2019 12:19:03 PM PDT by onona (It is often wise to allow a person a graceful path.)
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To: BenLurkin

Get out. We have no business being in Somalia. Somalia is not vital to American national interests.

If anything, we should deport the vast majority of the Somalis we stupidly let in.


35 posted on 04/14/2019 1:58:14 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: BenLurkin

Its not in the American interest at all, its just a conflict so that politicians can patronize certain military careers with combat deployments and offer contracts to military weapons suppliers.

Change my opinion.


36 posted on 04/14/2019 4:34:19 PM PDT by Bayard
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