[jerod]

Comparing this mission to Somali, is like comparing Granada to WWII.

[jerod]

There weren't 5,000 plus Americans killed in Mogodeshui.(SP?)

[Free the USA]

Dis-info campaign. Keep em guessing.

[Gordian Blade]

If this information is true, the reporter has no business reporting it. If this information is false, the reporter has no business reporting it.

[PRND21]

Few is enough.

[piasa]

But spectacular failures still haunt these forces.

That statement couldn't be further from the truth. In Somalia, tha failure was 100% political, 100% Clinton's unwillingness to take the mission seriously, and reluctance to act.

[GVnana]

To this writer (who doesn't understand squat about the military) I paraphrase Churchill: "Never fear. All will come right."

This isn't a Clintoon operation. We're taking our time. We're preparing. We'll do it right, with as little loss of life as possible.

[Travis McGee]

Afghanistan is the size of Texas, 250,000 squre miles, (or twice the size of all of Viet Nam), it has 18,000 foot tall mountains, and it's 500 miles from the ocean to the closest frontier. And winter comes in a few weeks.

Tall order, no matter how many specops troops you have.

[Sueann]

Are you kidding? Do you think the Pentagon is going to tell where the special ops are?? Puhleeeeze! Get real!

[biggerten]

Does anyone know how long it might take to obtain a basic understanding of a foriegn language?

Can someone learn enough to operate on a primitive basis in a few weeks, for example? I have been wondering about this for some time.

[Cautor]

The NY Slimes--when did they become an expert on the US military they so routinely denigrate. The unAmerican crowd that pens the tripe they peddle as news is clueless about what we can/cannot/will/will not do. They share much of the blame for this cowardly attack on the US. They've spent years pampering every criminal they can.

[lavaroise]

The disastrous attempt to kidnap a Somali warlord, Mohammed Farrah Aidid, in 1993 certainly ended public support for involvement there.

It was only disastrous because our welfare liberal mentality made it so. It was a success like the barrage against the Tet Offensive, but noooo! some of our people with civilians got killed and somehow that was unacceptable for a people who want protection but not pay for it. Hence, when we let arabs protect our oil assets abroad against RUssia, China or even India, those arabs find it in the end easier to kill us than those abroad for the money we pay them. Bottom line is that they turn against us, and I would too, I mean how stupid!