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- From: randall@informix.com (Randall Rhea)
- Newsgroups: alt.current-events.somalia,alt.politics.org.un,alt.president.clinton,talk.politics.misc,alt.politics.bush
- Subject: Re: Somalia Question
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- Date: 18 Dec 92 02:23:57 GMT
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- gtao@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Greg ) writes:
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- >m23364@mwunix (James Meritt) writes:
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- >I was wondering what all you people who are worried about the possibility
- >of the situation in Somalia deteriorating from our standpoint are
- >worried about?
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- >Maybe I just don't know all that much about the Somalia situation, but
- >there just doesn't seem to be that much threat to US troops there.
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- The worry is that troops will need to be stationed there for months
- if not years, and that gradually, some of them will be coming home
- in pine boxes as teenage AK-47-wielding drug-stoned snipers pick them
- off. The other worry is that we seem to have no clear objective in
- Somalia, other than to deliver food. That is a noble objective, but
- how long will we be doing it? Unless a strong government is established
- there, forever. Are we going to try to install a government? I am not
- clear as to what we are doing there.
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