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Originally posted by Iron_Ranger:
TL, about Somalia, I am not saying that was the correct way to carry it out, I am not saying it was successful, because it most certaintly was not. What I was saying is that it was a good ideal.
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But, IR, the question is *what* was a good idea? To get involved? Well, according to the Powell Doctrine, you only use military force for a defined, narrow, clear, understandable goal - and then you use overwhelming force. The whole notion of "what to do" in Somalia - which was fraught with no less than 8 equally strong factions vying for power at the time - is mission creep at its finest. When it's all-out anarchic civil war, it's best to back off til at least some few people to oppose rise to the top. So, I guess I'm of the opinion that we shouldn't have gotten involved there at all.