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To: thoughtomator
Was our intervention in Somalia consistent with US policy?

No, it wasn't, was it. So ergo there must be some hidden reason the Bush Sr. administration took the actions it did, because you can't wrap your brain around something new or out of the ordinary - right?

Given the the Clinton administration lurched from one scandal to another, anything it undertook can be viewed as damage control, but then not everybody was looking to the administration for their world news, were they? Are you really trying to sell the hypothesis that NATO's European nations and Canada resorted to military action in order to cover Clinton's butt? You just haven't pondered how stupid that is, have you.

They, like I, have arrived at my 'line' independent of what the Clinton administration was selling, and the fact that your only recourse is to retreat to this last line of defence in your argument merely points out the weakness of your position.

Why don't you check out what some of the writers of the material you are relying upon are saying about our current involvement in Iraq? A "No blood for oil" t-shirt would go great with your "Free Slobo" one.

24 posted on 12/31/2003 3:14:15 PM PST by Hoplite
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To: Hoplite
Do you have any memory of the time?

Europe was clamoring for the US to solve an extremely embarassing problem for them. When it became convenient for Clinton to do so, he did.

The Somalian intervention, though very ill-advised, certainly was consistent with previous US actions, as it gave us control over oil resources there. That you should mention Somalia and then accuse me of being in league with the "no blood for oil" crowd is disingenuous.

Please elaborate how you arrived at your conclusion that the Kosovo campaign was the correct thing to do. What are the criteria? If it's 4200 dead, then there's no explanation for why we weren't all over Africa - in fact, pulling out of Somalia makes no sense under that criteria. Is 4200 dead white people the criteria? Then why did we side with Croatia?

What's your standard for judging an intervention to be justified?
25 posted on 12/31/2003 3:38:13 PM PST by thoughtomator ("I will do whatever the Americans want because I saw what happened in Iraq, and I was afraid"-Qadafi)
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