Posted on 01/04/2019 3:34:50 PM PST by McGruff
Famous for the shooting down of a BlackHawk helicopter.
No, Maine, North Dakota, and especially Minnesota.
We went into Somalia when GHW Bush was prez for humanitarian reasons and then the Liberal Interventionist Bill Clinton shifted the mission into nation building which resulted in Blackhawk Down.
You could also say that the antiwar pacifist democrats are natural allies with the rightwing republican isolationists. If you look at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, those two anti war dems and Rand Paul always vote the same way.
It is time to bring the troops home from Germany too!
It is unlikely that 10,000 Russian tanks will spearhead an invasion of Europe. The USSR and the Warsaw Pact are long gone. And besides, the Poles did a pretty good job against the USSR in 1920 (with the help of some volunteer US pilots).
Americans in general have grown very tired of losing their sons and daughters on never ending s***hole patrols. The native S***holers, aside from those making a tidy profit off our presence, would prefer us gone too. No immediate national interest ... no reason to be there.
And Columbus OH.
“Why are we there in the first place?”
I read the best answer in the first 50 pages of Black Hawk Down.
Yippppeeeee
Good. We should GTFO of the Middle East as much as possible, let the Russians and Chinese deal with them. Meanwhile the CIA should be engaging in a PSYOP against Islam, to put doubt in the hearts of young Moos. Achmed clicks on his favorite porn site and gets popups saying “The dead can’t come back and say Mohammed lied” or “The drunken orgies are not in Heaven, they are in the palaces of your rulers”.
Just smoke ‘em and cut out the middle man.
Otto von Bismark,said, “The whole of the Balkans are not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.” The whole of Somalia is not worth an ingrown toenail.
I concur.
“Hell, I thought all the somalis were in Michigan these days.”
Minnesota really got flooded. Obongo placed them very strategically. He picked small rural districts and overwhelmed them. Little towns were suddenly being run by these savages who couldn’t even speak English.
WTG MAGA DJT!!!!
My SIL spent a year there. Didn’t have much good to say about the place.
UN Headquarters should be moved to Somalia, too!
I agonize over American foreign policy. I always go back to President Washington but understand President Reagan.
Our country is only a few years from encountering total collapse, and you’re thinking of world domination?
Those foreign bases won’t matter a hill of beans when you and your family are starving, while trying to survive post apocalyptic America.
All of what you say could well be true based on the current paradigm. There are advantages to forward deployment.
However we need to move to the point where we can remotely launch and break what’s needed. Lower cost precision remote detonation of any place in world with none of our humans in harms way. Humans in total control of the machines and the machines doing our dirty work for us. That’s where this is headed and it certainly won’t take place tommorrow. But we need to be on the forefront of it and start inching in that direction.
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