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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (43149)	8/24/2002 6:11:55 PM
From: JEB	Respond to of 50167

...it also explains how President Clinton lost the conflict with Hussein. Hussein was emboldened by Somalia. He saw our weakness, knew we were stretched thin, and the timing was right for Hussein to act.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (43149)	8/24/2002 6:16:11 PM
From: JEB	Respond to of 50167

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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (43149)	8/24/2002 10:58:39 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Hi IQBAL LATIF; Re Mogadishu and US foreign policy changes. This quote from Blackhawk Down is appropriate: Blackhawk Down Mark Bowden, (page 334-5, paperback) ... Mogadishu has had a profound cautionary influence on U.S. military policy ever since. "It was a watershed," says one State Department official, who asked not to be named because his insight runs so counter to our current foreign policy agenda. "The idea used to be that terrible countries were terrible because good, decent, innocent people were being oppressed by evil, thuggish leaders. Somalia changed all that. Here you have a country where just about everybody is caught up in hatred and fighting. You stop an old lady on the street and ask her if she wants peace, and she'll say, yes, of course, I pray for it daily. All the things you'd expect her to say. Then ask her if she would be willing for her clan to share power with another in order to have that peace, and she'll say, 'With those murderers and thieves? I'd die first.' People in these countries -- Bosnia is a more recent example -- don't want peace. They want victory. They want power. Men, women, old and young. Somalia was the experience that taught us that people in these places bear much of the responsibility for things being the way they are. The hatred and killing continues because they want it to. Or because they don't want peace enough to stop it." -- Carl