Black Hawk Down... Again?

Black Hawk Down, Part Two?

It’s back to the Horn of Africa and Somalia.
Remember Mogadishu? No? Well, maybe you remember “Black Hawk Down”?
NOOOOW, you remember!
Eighteen US soldiers killed and thousands of Somalis killed. (In one battle.) Then President Clinton lost what little nerve he had and brought the troops home, the Sec Def resigned… it was a royal screw-up from beginning to end!

I suppose the biggest problem created by US troop withdrawal for Somalia was… you guessed it... Bin Laden. He has said repeatedly that when he saw the US "cut and run" from Somalia he knew, right then, that all one had to do was shed a little American blood and the Americans would quit and go home. That, of course, led to the bombings of the World Trade Center towers, the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, and numerous other wars we, as the public, are not told about, but they are hot shooting wars, nonetheless.

Why are we going back to Somalia? Why now?

Al Qaeda is looking for a country to use as a base of operations. We kicked them out of Afghanistan, and their life is pure hell in Iraq, so, they need a base. Somalia hasn’t had a government in 50 years. It’s perfect!

Already, US troops are gathering in nearby Djibouti. The coming war in Somalia will not be nearly as sanitary as the war we have had in Iraq. There will be killing on a massive scale. We learned from our first encounter with the crazed, doped-up, Somali’s that they have little regard for life, especially when they are high... and that’s most of the time. And, in battle they will come at you in droves reminiscent of the Banzai charges of the Japanese during world war two. The steady, well trained US troops will mow them down and litter the ground with bodies eerily like rows of hay in a newly mown field.

Once again, the US will be fighting, here at home, as the PC crowd and the “limp-wristed lefties” begin to scream that all those nice people our troops are killing have black skin! I assure you, our troops see only a man with a weapon intent on killing them and the US troops will do what he is trained to do... and that is to take the enemy’s life as quickly, and efficiently, and in the greatet numbers possible.

When the war “spins up”, and gets going, it will be historically bloody. So, get used to it.

I have said from the beginning of the War on Terror that this is a war with no end. We will simply move our attention from one country to another in a never-ending chain of "brushfire" wars. It makes little difference who the President of the US is at any given time. The intensity of the conflict will wax and wane and people will continue to die on a global scale.

But we cannot back down. The survival of the US hangs in the balance. If we choose not to fight, we will not simply lose this war, we will lose our country and our freedom.

Eventually the shooting war will reach our shores. We have been spared the brutality of war here at home, but not for long. To delay it, as long as possible, we must continue to engage the enemy, off shore, at every opportunity.

Some US troops will eventually leave Iraq, and Afghanistan, but it will be temporary.

The point is... that as long as the planet has people who are hell bent on forcing their religion on others at the point of a sword, spear, or bayonet, then this War on Terror will go on and on. Frankly, I see no end, anywhere, in sight.

Longstreet