Blackhawk Down 2?
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aYhvgOfyTmYA&refer=worldwide
April 13 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. military is considering attacks on pirate bases on land and aid for the Somali people to help stem ship hijackings off Africa’s east coast, defense officials said.
The military also is drawing up proposals to aid the fledgling Somalia government to train security forces and develop its own coast guard, said the officials, who requested anonymity. The plans will be presented to the Obama administration as it considers a coordinated U.S. government and international response to piracy, the officials said.
The effort follows the freeing yesterday of Richard Phillips, a U.S. cargo ship captain held hostage since April 8 by Somali pirates. Security analysts said making shipping lanes safe would require disrupting the pirates’ support network on land.
“There really isn’t a silver-bullet solution other than going into Somalia and rooting out the bases” of the pirates, said James Carafano, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based group.
Any plan would have to be coordinated carefully, analysts said. In 1992, under then-President George H.W. Bush, U.S. forces that landed in Somalia to confront widespread starvation found themselves in the middle of a civil war. Forty-two Americans died before former President Bill Clinton pulled out the troops in 1994.
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didnt think this would come through so quick, but we could see it coming..usa troops on the ground again in somalia..and the french wont be far behind i believe
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You know what’s odd about this is Clinton (democratic) didn’t ‘finish’ Somalia campaign the first time around. Bush the first president (republican) didn’t ‘finish’ Iraq campaign the first time around. At least in the U.S. media that’s how those two conflicts were perceived and it became a huge debate that never really left. When Bush the second president went back to Iraq the media endlessly discussed how his father didn’t finish it and people would say his father should have just finished the job cause look how we’re (the U.S.) are back in Iraq to finish what his father didn’t. No doubt this will all come back up when Obama goes in and it will be propagandized in the media the same way. Clinton didn’t finish the job and so now Obama’s back there, etc, etc… And the party line is finishing these conflicts which is odd and probably not a coincidence.
interesting ideas on the “finish the job” line..without doubt the forces will go on land to “secure” the waters
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