This is undermining the credibility of your passion in my eyes, frankly.
Somalia was statrted by Pres. Bush Sr. in the last days of his admin.
Clinton/gore/Les Aspin(Sec. of Dod) at once increased the focus of the mission from food and relief to "nation builiding and then SHRANK the resources available to the military on the ground to perform.
That led to the infamous Black Hawk Down tragedy.
He then blew town, reinforcing the idea in the mind of ObL that he could make war while Americans played the stock market.
Instead of reacting with leadership to the 1993 attack on the WTC, clinton postured, chewed his lip and did NOTHING.
The Republicans were not keeping clinton from doing his job.
clinton was demostrating a strong characteristic of his 8 years in this: showy, shallow efforts followed by little if any follow through.
What clinton did after his deposition in the Monica scandal he caused was unforgivable:
He wagged the dog and everyone knew it.
He bombed a friggin' ethical drug factory in Sudan.
He shot some missles into Afghanistan.
Big friggin' deal. No follow thorough, no policy, no efforts.
Clinton KNEW in his last days where ObL was and the SOB did nothing because he was pouting over gore's narow loss.
He ahd time to sell pardons and to walk off with White House furniture but he ahd no time to catch ObL.
Give me a break, EP.
I respect your work on the NEO problem even if I don't always agree. But this is just plain wrong.
Stick with space rocks. You have a much better chance of being a hero in that area. On this, you sound like an uninformed clintonista or goron supporter.
Ed