Emira Woods , is the co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C..
Woods began by distinguishing between the two sides in the conflict and how the U.S. government has taken the action of destabilizing a popularly elected government in favor of helping remnants of the very warlords that killed American soldiers in 1993, to the cost of the Somali people who had finally found peace and stability after years of civil war and bloodshed.
Woods said that the transitional governing body that was made up of the remnants of the warlord factions formed in Nairobi and was only brought into Somalia this week with the help of the Bush administration. The transitional body has direct ties to the Aideed faction, the very same warlord American troops were killed and dragged through the streets of Mogadishu for trying to capture in 1993.
The Bush administration is helping empower the very same warlords that were fictionalized in "Black Hawk Down".
2007-01-11 05:58:25 · 8 answers · asked by sscam2001 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Bush's policies have shown him to be an unwise, incompetent and dangerous nut case for America, not once, but so many times. If anything, he should be exiled to Iraq!
2007-01-11 06:10:41 · answer #1 · answered by United_Peace 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
You cant go into a foreign country and not conspire and team up with someone there to help you fight your battles.
They have done it before and they are doing it now.
I really enjoy reading up on the conspiracy theories...it's funny but there's a lot in there I suspect is not theory at all.
Don't forget--you don't get your back scratched without owing the favour back someday, and I don't think you want to p*ss off a bunch of terrorists and warlords...ooops...too late it seems.
2007-01-11 14:23:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why not? President Reagan teamed up with Saddam Hussein against Iran, setting back the Iranian jihad 20 years without costing any American lives. The policy also lowered the amount Texxon could gouge us on oil, because Saddam had to produce over his Texxon-OPEC quotas in order to finance his war against Iran.
2007-01-11 14:12:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think your question above only lends to the creedence, and awareness through modes of intelligence, the discernment of where the truer purveyors of peace, or purveyors of hatred and instability that you refer to, lie, which is not always easy in its discernment. It is my opinion that the idea of bench-marks itself project the proof and very understanding of wishes FOR stability in this regard, don't you?
2007-01-11 14:08:56 · answer #4 · answered by Garret Tripp 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Just another War to protect American assets
2007-01-11 14:01:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I'm just happy to see more dead terrorists.
I wonder if they had time to know what was about to hit them before Puff The Magic Dragon turned them all into Steak Tar-tar? I hope so.
Good luck, I hope this helps.
2007-01-11 14:12:21 · answer #6 · answered by Yak Rider 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's another Bush disaster
2007-01-11 14:01:11 · answer #7 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
"nations don't have friends, only interests"
2007-01-11 14:01:36 · answer #8 · answered by kapute2 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋