Would Americans have gotten killed if Poppa Bush had not sent the troops into Somalia ?
No Americans were killed because President Bush Sent them to Somalia. That is fact. The premise of your question is false.
When executing the orders of President Bush, the troops were in central and well defended positions. More to the point, our neutral stance in the armed conflict did not antagonize the warring parties. Clintons actions did just that. It is the sole reason for the deaths of the American soldiers.
I notice you have not provided a response as to why Clinton did not pull the troops out. It was nearly impossible as you put it. BullChit !
Here is some more perspective:
By May 1993, with relief supplies flowing, famine on the wane and the country relatively peaceful, the United States withdrew most of its troops and turned Somalia over to a U.N. peacekeeping force. With almost no planning, the U.N. Security Council broadened the peacekeepers' mandate from securing relief operations to "the rehabilitation of the political institutions and economy of Somalia."
The Clinton administration strongly supported this more aggressive stance. Madeleine Albright, then the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said the goal was "nothing less than the restoration of an entire country."
All of this infuriated Gen. Mohamed Farah Aideed, the warlord whose Somali National Alliance had emerged as the dominant force in Mogadishu. Realizing that the United Nations' peacekeepers would be a far weaker adversary than the U.S. Marines, Aideed immediately began increasing his armed presence in Mogadishu. He also began broadcasting a stream of anti-U.N. invective on Radio Mogadishu, his fury fueled by his antipathy for Egypt, the homeland of U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and a steadfast supporter of Mohamed Siad Barre, the dictator Aideed had helped depose two years earlier. |
