[Alberta's Child]

I can't argue with his 1993 sentiments, since they were the same as mine. For that matter, those soldiers never should have been in Somalia in the first place.

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.

[elbucko]

How quickly we forget that these idiotic nation-building exercises in Third World sh!t-holes are...

...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.