On December 9, 1992, 1,800 United States Marines arrive in Mogadishu, Somalia, to spearhead a multinational force aimed at restoring order in the conflict-ridden country.
Following centuries of colonial rule by countries including Portugal, Britain and Italy, Mogadishu became the capital of an independent Somalia in 1960. Less than 10 years later, a military group led by Major General Muhammad Siad Barre seized power and declared Somalia a socialist state. A drought in the mid-1970s combined with an unsuccessful rebellion by ethnic Somalis in a neighboring province of Ethiopia to deprive many of food and shelter. By 1981, close to 2 million of the country’s inhabitants were homeless. Though a peace accord was signed with Ethiopia in 1988, fighting increased between rival clans within Somalia, and in January 1991 Barre was forced to flee the capital. Over the next 23 months, Somalia’s civil war killed some 50,000 people; another 300,000 died of starvation as United Nations peacekeeping forces struggled in vain to restore order and provide relief amid the chaos of war.
In early December 1992, outgoing U.S. President George H.W. Bush sent the contingent of Marines to Mogadishu as part of a mission dubbed Operation Restore Hope. Backed by the U.S. troops, international aid workers were soon able to restore food distribution and other humanitarian aid operations. Sporadic violence continued, including the murder of 24 U.N. soldiers from Pakistan in 1993. As a result, the U.N. authorized the arrest of General Mohammed Farah Aidid, leader of one of the rebel clans. On October 3, 1993, during an attempt to make the arrest, rebels shot down two of the U.S. Army’s Black Hawk helicopters and killed 18 American soldiers.
As horrified TV viewers watched images of the bloodshed—including footage of Aidid’s supporters dragging the body of one dead soldier through the streets of Mogadishu, cheering—President Bill Clinton immediately gave the order for all American soldiers to withdraw from Somalia by March 31, 1994. Other Western nations followed suit. When the last U.N. peacekeepers left in 1995, ending a mission that had cost more than $2 billion, Mogadishu still lacked a functioning government. A ceasefire accord signed in Kenya in 2002 failed to put a stop to the violence, though a new parliament was convened in 2004.
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What condition is that shithole in at the moment?
… just go to Minnesota and see …
Isn’t the average IQ of a Somali somewhere around 70 or something?
Sub-human monkey fuckers.
Another waste of American lives.
Right? WTF are the marines doing ANYWHERE but US Tex-Mex border and other ports of entry, etc. Empty Okinawa, fill Sonora.
I remember that. That’s where the niggers drug one of our dead soldiers through the street literally by his dead dick. And Clinton did jack shit.
They never should’ve been there. No overseas servicemen. Defend our borders for a few billion dollars a year and stop bothering people.
FUCK THE MIC.
War Is A Racket, By Major General Smedley Butler, USMC
https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
In for a penny, in for a pound. NO ONE would get away with that under my command…orders or no orders.
You need to learn that there is a point at which your fucking political ideology is totally meaningless.
This was one of those points.
That was Gary Gordon and Randy Shughart that they drug trough the streets. They were the two snipers who insisted on being inserted to secure and protect the crew of the first downed Blackhawk. Those guys were true studs and did not deserve to be wasted on a shithole country.
Amen.
And let’s not forget that’s when the started flooding the upper Midwest with these Somali Niggers.
I would add Lewiston Me.
That was nothing.
We spent 20 years, thousands of young lives and $13 trillion
to replace the Taliban with the Taliban.
…and arm them up like AF while we were at it!