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If you read the book 'Black Hawk Down', on which the movie was based, they throw a lot of cold water on the theory that having heavy armor available would have made evacuation possible. The Germans' experience at Stalingrad, and the Soviets' at Berlin, taught how ill-suited armor is for use in close-quarters street fighting. Let's blame Clinton for sending the Rangers into Somalia in the first place, and for then pulling them out as soon as the shooting started; guaranteeing that the young men's lives were lost in vain. But the Black Hawk mission itself was an Army job, and it's military failures are their responsibility.