[HelloooClareece]

Somalia and Darfur are smelling more and more like a trap to me. Glad to see we aren't going in.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I really don't have a problem with letting the UN deal with these conflicts, while the USA concentrates on areas that affect global economics. Frankly, staking a position in a 2,000 year old fued is barely more than I can take.

[Samurai_Jack]

Sorry the American Military is not for RENT or LEASE, nor command by a foreign interest.

[I see my hands]

What's going on? If Somalia is an al-Qaida state we take Somalia out. It's not a matter of courts or Islamic law or plans or strategy. Does anyone remember 9-11?

Holy crap, It's every man for himself now.

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=749#749
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=750#750

[airborne]

I've begun stockpiling MRE's and other survival gear.

It's just a matter of time.

[word_warrior_bob]

So we've become so impotent that there are "acceptable" places for Al Quaida to control?

So much for the "Global War On Terror"

[blam]

"“The problem is that the CIC is led by extreme radicals right now, not the moderates that we all hoped would emerge,” Frazer said. One leading group within the courts, the al-Shaaba, “are radical youth killers,” Frazer said. “That’s what they are. They’re killing nuns, they’ve killed children and they’re calling for jihad.”"

The Somalia's must be so happy that pure Islam has finally arrived.

[blam]

Al-Qa'eda In Charge Of Mogadishu, Says US

[river rat]

Our troops are not needed in Somalia or Darfur....
Modern and very powerful munitions falling from 30,000 feet would be helpful....and overdue.

Semper Fi

[goldstategop]

Black Hawk Down. Besides the Left would scream "its all Bush's fault."

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

we should be giving arms to Ethiopia...lots of them and letting them clean up their backyard

[montag813]

How about we send back the 70,000 rabble-rousing Somali creeps that Clinton allowed into this country, and let them fight this battle? They can take a break from filing civil rights lawsuits and refusing taxi passengers who carry alcohol, and other wonderful contributions they are making to this nation.

[Spruce]

I bet we have potent assets all over the Horn of Africa. Just not anything we civilians will ever know about for a few years .