[NeonKnight]

Yes, Somalia was an odd little adventure that nobody really understood anyway. I do hold daddy Bush responsible for that one. I know it was sold as humanitarian...but there was no real plan to solve the crises. I don't think Marines can do much about poverty. But it was nowhere near the scale of VN. I think we lost around 20 lives.

[Nix 2]

It was Clinton that decided we would not protect ourselves in Somalia, not Bush. Clinton was about *nation building.* Bush was about delivering food to starving people, but he didn't leave our troops in the lurch without the necessary means to defend themselves. Clinton did. Do some history.