The guy is nuts.
What a schmuck
‘Fortress America’ *PING* !!!!
Your Link doesn’t go anywhere
A kinder, gentler, weaker “Fortress America”, with a puny standing army, and decades out of date equipment, just like the peaceful and friendly 1920’s and 1930’s is this person’s fantasy. Retire Ron, you are an anachronism and long due your rest.
Can any FR oldtimers (pre-2001) attest to how Ron Paul’s foreign policy views were received earlier? Just curious.
Family Resemblance?
Ron Paul and his supporters are liberals.
In your guts you know he’s nuts!
I have to look around quite diligently when entering Sam’s Club parking lot.
Ron Paul was right on this one. We had no business in Somalia, as it has no relation to our national security. The United States military had no business there, and even less in ex-Yugoslavia, where we effectively allowed an expansion of Muslim power in southeastern Europe. Iraq and Afghanistan are different stories, however, and Paul is dead wrong on wanting an immediate pullout. That being said, until the recent surge, the present Administration was extremely dilatory in resolving the conflicts in the Middle East.
Don’t want to get mowed down in a Mogadishu street?
Don’t be standing behind the idiot with the AK-74 when he decides to crank a few rounds off at the American infantry platoon.
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Bump
Guy wearing civilian clothes and firing an AK or RPG
= “civilian”
By CareerNavy:
On October 8th, 1993 18 U.S. Rangers and over 800 Somalis were killed in a day-long firefight in downtown Mogedishu Somalia. The Rangers were on orders from President Bill "LBJ" Clinton to arrest clan leader Mohammad Fehrad Aidid for the killing of 24 Pakistani soldiers months earlier."Mahaliki Rangers" or the battle of Mogadishu came about not because of Adid, but because of Pakistani criminalism and Bill Clinton's lust of power. Mohammad Aidid had personally warned then acting commander of the UN operation in Somalia, retired US Admiral Benjamin Johnston, that Adid would retaliate for "Pakistani gangster acts" on Adid's clan. Among these acts were several murders, hoarding of relief supplies, club beatings of somalis and several rapes…including the gang rapping of a ten year old girl.
Johnston passed these complaints to the U.S. State Department and to the Pakistani ambassador to the United States but when Pakistani troops continued their criminalism, Adid chose to retaliate.
Why didn't the United States investigate the charges against the Pakistani army? Why were clear warnings of retaliation ignored? Why did Bill Clinton proceed with such an idiotic and foolish attempt to capture Aidid in such a crowded and armed city? Why did 58 Americans die under Clinton?
Operation Restore Hope was working till Clinton got a wild hair up his hillbilly ass to go range rumping with his pink pistols. He should forever be remembered as the idiot President who murdered 58 Americans for nothing and brought the United States shame when it retreated from Somalia.
By MissAmericanPie:
Our military men have no business being placed under U.N. command. I can't remember the details, but wasn't there a rescue attempt and our guys had to wade through red tape to get the French soliders there, also under the U.N., to give the U.S. rescuers their trucks? I think I remember something about some kind of rediculous red tape while our men were being killed that day.
By BradyLS:
But the biggest problem is that the citizenry of Mogadishu, whom had welcomed us, had by the time of the raid been turned against our presence. Once the people you try to help have turned their backs to you (or worse), it's time to cut your losses, declare victory, and go home. No need for us to risk our hides overseas when more pressing problems face us at home. I hope Bush will avoid these sorts of entanglements in the future.
And finally, in May 2000 Freeper "dead", quoting another source on NetNomad.com, intending to denounce Clinton as a liar and the hand behind the raid that he later described as "too aggressive:"
"We were going to set Aidid aside," said one senior Clinton adviser, using the White House euphemism for what was more commonly known among officials as the "snatch" operation.Seven weeks later the decision would result in a bloody firefight as Rangers and men of the Delta Force made their seventh attempt to grab Aidid. Eighteen American soldiers died, and 77 were wounded. An estimated 300 Somalis were killed and another 700 wounded, a third of the casualties women and children...
Well, the “Black Hawk Down” incident DID leave around 1000 casualties - many/most non-military. The incident did occur because our troops were sent into a bad situation, of dubious value, with a badly defined mission with lousy ROE.
ACKO ALERT.