[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: "Not too unusual, when you think about it we did the same thing to Clinton over Somalia."

Okay, you cannot substantiate your Vietnam feeeeeeeeeeeeelings (see my post above, please), how about Somalia? President Bush sent aid there owing almost entirely to CNN's wall-to-wall coverage of the very real human problems there.

Later under Clinton it bacame a "nation building" effort. Remember the issue of "mission creep?"

"we did the same thing to Clinton over Somalia" is simply wrong. Yes, there was justified criticism of Clinton but saying "we did the same thing to Clinton over Somalia" vis-a-vis conservative crticism of 1960s liberals is wrong.

[NeonKnight]

There is still a humanitarian crises in Somalia. You wanna send in the Marines? If it is not a good idea now, why was it a good idea then? I said I liked GHWB, but if you are going to claim he did it because of CNN coverage, I may have to rethink it.

[Zeroisanumber]

Okay, you cannot substantiate your Vietnam feeeeeeeeeeeeelings (see my post above, please), how about Somalia? President Bush sent aid there owing almost entirely to CNN's wall-to-wall coverage of the very real human problems there.

Mother warned me not to feed to board trolls. She also warned me not to write two long posts trying to make a point to people who don't want a point to be made. My considered position (not "librul feeeeeelings" as you would have it) is illustrated in post 38, both on Vietnam and Somalia.