How quickly we forget that these idiotic nation-building exercises in Third World sh!t-holes are as much a part of the GOP approach to foreign policy as the Democrat approach.
...compelled by cries from the Left for the US to use its military for "humanitarian" causes.
Those on the Left continuously demand that the US military save the Third World from itself when all that US intervention ever accomplishes is throwing gasoline upon the fires of a civil war or a war of thugs. In Somalia the US should have done nothing but watch closely until the fire burned itself out. As horrible as it was, these people were determined to kill each other and anything that got in their way.