[onyx]

RE: #* --- EXACTLY RIGHT!

Travis McGee practically forced me to read "Black Hawk Down." I'm glad he did.

[mlibertarianj]

The only thing that kind've sucks, is that the warlord Muhammed Aidid, had assumed room temprature a few years back. I would love to see that bastard's head on a spike! One more thing about that failed rescue, about a week later, the Clintoon State department was flying this Yo-Yo around in military aircraft, to negotiate some power-sharing agreement for Somalia. I could feel for the military personnel, having to shuffle this clymer around. I would've arrainged for a nasty accident to happen to this warlord.

[FreedomPoster]

I need to get down to Borders and get BHD myself.

When the Afghan excursion got started, I went out and got a book entitled "Somalia on $5 a Day". Combat pay was $150 a month back then, hence $5 a day. About the peacekeeping efforts by U.S. units out in the countryside, away from Mogadishu. Worth finding and reading, if only to understand the mentality of the people we are dealing with in these Third World hellholes.