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You know, I'm tired of the "Somalia" baloney.

In fact, a handful of Amecricans kicked a$$. We captured 6 top officials from the warlord.

Was the operation poorly planned? Yes. Did the sad sacks of s--t in DC deny the commander on the ground the appropriate armor and helicopters for the mission? Yes.

We did it anyway, at the loss of 21 American lives vs. 1000-5000 Somalis. I'm not happy about the loss of life on either side, but it was the cowardice of the Clintoon admin that turned a victory on the ground into defeat.

Imagine how this story hade been played if the POTUS had mentioned that only 1 SF company had gone into a portion of Mogadishu filled with hundreds of thousands of hostiles and grabbed 6 top scumbags in any case. Sounds like a different story put that way, doesn't it? What's the moral? The fruits of 48 hours of valor in the field can be squandered in minutes of fecklessness by cowardly political leadership.

The coming struggle is not goinmg to be cost free. But I don't think their valor will be sacrificed upon the ego the current POTUS.

if the POTUS had mentioned that only 1 SF company had gone into a portion of Mogadishu

It wasn't a Special Forces company,it was a Ranger company.

We did it anyway, at the loss of 21 American lives vs. 1000-5000 Somalis. I'm not happy about the loss of life on either side, but it was the cowardice of the Clintoon admin that turned a victory on the ground into defeat.

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This is a KEY POINT. The loss of American lives was unnecessary due to bad military planning - they needed better armor, but that was a tactical setback only that cast a shadow on the extremely valiant effort of our fighting men in the city.

THE STRATEGIC DEFEAT came later when Clinton bugged out.

"The fruits of 48 hours of valor in the field can be squandered in minutes of fecklessness by cowardly political leadership."

Indeed.