No good deed goes unpunished
Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2019 5:01 pm
The soldiers who were in Somalia 25 years ago must be thinking this when they see Rep. Omar: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04- ... -911-tweet
Just to review some history:
1. "Blackhawk Down" happened because us.gov wanted to avoid a Rwanda-style cleansing (I won't blame Clinton because the troops were first put there by Bush 1). They were there to protect NGOs distributing food and prevent relief supplies from being seized by warlords like Aidid. Yeah, all that "end of history", "New World Order", "Rainbows and Unicorns" stuff.
2. Omar's family were close allies of the prior (corrupt) leader of Somalia, the one who was deposed by Aidid and the other warlords. They were rich because they were part of the corruption.
3. Omar's family were able to escape to Kenya because they were rich, so they had some "portable wealth". They were not in their (not very portable) expensive villa in Mogadishu (which probably was occupied by some warlord) when "Blackhawk Down" happened.
4. If us.gov wasn't so concerned about a Rwanda-style cleansing, and did not have a military presence in Somalia putting some brakes on Aidid, Omar's family will likely have been some of the "loose ends" cleaned-up by Aidid, "Rwanda-style".
Of course, as the character William Munny so accurately observes in "Unforgiven", "Deserve's got nothing to do with it."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kjYk2CrQF8
Just to review some history:
1. "Blackhawk Down" happened because us.gov wanted to avoid a Rwanda-style cleansing (I won't blame Clinton because the troops were first put there by Bush 1). They were there to protect NGOs distributing food and prevent relief supplies from being seized by warlords like Aidid. Yeah, all that "end of history", "New World Order", "Rainbows and Unicorns" stuff.
2. Omar's family were close allies of the prior (corrupt) leader of Somalia, the one who was deposed by Aidid and the other warlords. They were rich because they were part of the corruption.
3. Omar's family were able to escape to Kenya because they were rich, so they had some "portable wealth". They were not in their (not very portable) expensive villa in Mogadishu (which probably was occupied by some warlord) when "Blackhawk Down" happened.
4. If us.gov wasn't so concerned about a Rwanda-style cleansing, and did not have a military presence in Somalia putting some brakes on Aidid, Omar's family will likely have been some of the "loose ends" cleaned-up by Aidid, "Rwanda-style".
Of course, as the character William Munny so accurately observes in "Unforgiven", "Deserve's got nothing to do with it."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kjYk2CrQF8
