California Conservative

Maybe Democrats are hoping no one will notice the obvious.

In 1993, John Murtha urged then-President Clinton to begin a complete pullout of U.S. troops from Somalia after nineteen U.S. Rangers were killed in an military operation in Mogadishu. Clinton listened, we cut and ran, and today Somalia is an Al-Qaeda recruiting center.

Murtha said in 1993;

“There’s no military solution. Some of them will tell you [that] to get [warlord Mohamed Farrah] Aidid is the solution. I don’t agree with that.”

Sound familiar?

As a result of this “cut and run”, Osama Bin Laden became emboldened and planned new attacks against the US: “Our people realized more than before that the American soldier is a paper tiger that run[s] in defeat after a few blows.”

Somalia has become a perfect example of what premature departure from Iraq could look like and not one Democrat is thanking the President for cleaning up the Clinton mess of 1993 in Somalia. Maybe it’s easier not to draw attention to the failure of cut and run.

Cross-posted @ Bottom Line Up Front

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 10th, 2007 at 3:19 pm and is filed under Africa, Author: Amy Proctor, Foreign Policy, Iraq, Liberals, Military, Terrorism. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.