[rey]

I don't get where everyone thinks Mogadishu was a failure,a loss. A flawed mission, perhaps. Not the cleanest, best supported op, certainly. But a failure or loss it was not. The target was secured, the mission was achieved, thousands of Somalians died, and we sadly lost two helicopters and 18 men, but we got them all back. However in military terms it was a big win that put the opposition on the ropes. I am sorry to say that a fact of warfare is you don't scrub the war, or even a battle for the sake of one prisoner.

[Rammer]

I agree. An entire city of thousands of armed enemy fighters were unable to defeat 100 lightly armed US warriors. Sounds like a success to me.

The "failure" was that Clinton/Aspin had their heads you know where and didn't back up our brave fighting men.