True, Clinton failed miserably here - but Bush Sr. deserves his share of the blame as well.
Bush Sr. should never have allowed the media to pressure him into sending US soldiers to the hellhole that is Somalia. There was zero national interests at stake, and even had we successfully fed these people for a few years it would have solved absolutely nothing.
The US had absolutely no business going to Somalia. I am just fine with individual citizens wishing to contribute to charities in an effort to keep a few of these people from starving to death, but the US government had absolutely no business sending US forces to Somalia.
I truly hate to agree, but I do.
Cut off all trade, food and let this hellhole nation slowly die.
I'll never forget Blackhawk Down...and I know it was a movie, but the facts remain the same.
Phuck Somalia.