Would you rather they fought us over here? I thought not.
We weren’t fighting a war on terror or against Muslims back then. It was a “humanitarian” mission, urged by the liberals and the press, whose purpose was to hand out food and medical help to people who were starving.
Bush did not support one warlord over another; it was clinton who decided that one of the warlords was meaner than the other ones. At the time, this was referred to as “mission creep.”
We had no intention of fighting anyone, but it predictably drifted into that. When it did, clinton pulled out.
Our troops were not in Somalia to fight. They went there only to feed the people.