Obama...I swear you're killing me here.

[palsgraf_polka]

We invaded (ok Lorri) ran a military operation in Somalia!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/15/somalia-al-qaida-revenge-vow

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[wobblerlorri.livejournal.com]

Oh now, "invaded" is completely the wrong word to use here. We've been in Somalia to one degree or another since at least 1992. And it was a high-level al-Quaida commander they got.

The Somali govt seems pleased:

Ahlu Sunna Waljamaca, a Somali militia that has been fighting al-Shabab and is allied with the UN-backed government of Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, praised the US raid.

"We are very pleased with the helicopters that killed the foreign al-Shabab fighters," a spokesman, Sheikh Abdullahi Sheikh Abu Yussuf, told Reuters. "God sent birds against those who attacked the holy mosque, the Ka'ba, millennia ago. The same way, God has sent bombers against al-Shabab. We hope more aircraft will destroy the rest of al-Shabab, who have abused Islam and massacred Somalis."

Emphasis mine.

[palsgraf-polka.livejournal.com]

Ok....ok...I'm being a little hyperbolic. But still, I am so sick of the Obama administration who ran on a platform of getting us out of Iraq and eventually Afghanistan still running military operations in countries like Somalia and doing things like making pretenses that we're pulling troops out of Iraq when in reality we're just quietly replacing them with private contractors and still having the same presence in these countries. When is enough enough?

[palsgraf-polka.livejournal.com]

And also, Obama's been supplying the tiny controlling government of Somalia (which really only controls a few blocks of Mogadishu) arms for months now and apparently these arms are just being sold to the terrorists and militia on the black market.

Do we ever learn from our mistakes?

[jdack.livejournal.com]

Do we ever learn from our mistakes?

Vietnam was 30 years and 58,000 dead US soldiers ago.

So no, it appears we do not.