And meanwhile, the battle of Mogadishu was repackaged by Hollywood as a guns & glory style, patriotic military recruitment tool to be released in the months following 9/11, rather than pro-commie foreign meddling. Enlightening.
To be fair, and to Clinton's credit, Clinton insisted on US troops being there under entirely different uniforms and an entirely separate chain of command than the UN troops, and the though the UN troops picked a fight with Aidid's forces, the US troops didn't, until Aidid attacked them both. He was played like a fiddle when Aidid attacked US troops, it is pretty easy to tell the difference between US Marine and US Army uniforms from UN Security uniforms, even from a distance.
If US troops are attacked, they should fight back, and fiercely. They are your enemy at that point, their motives barely matter if at all. Once then non communist forces were willing to back off, we did.
At the same time, it is understandable why he grouped UN Security and Peacekeeping troops and US troops together, UN Security troops and US troops were both protecting UN food convoys.
And meanwhile, the battle of Mogadishu was repackaged by Hollywood as a guns & glory style, patriotic military recruitment tool to be released in the months following 9/11, rather than pro-commie foreign meddling. Enlightening.
To be fair, and to Clinton's credit, Clinton insisted on US troops being there under entirely different uniforms and an entirely separate chain of command than the UN troops, and the though the UN troops picked a fight with Aidid's forces, the US troops didn't, until Aidid attacked them both. He was played like a fiddle when Aidid attacked US troops, it is pretty easy to tell the difference between US Marine and US Army uniforms from UN Security uniforms, even from a distance.
If US troops are attacked, they should fight back, and fiercely. They are your enemy at that point, their motives barely matter if at all. Once then non communist forces were willing to back off, we did.
At the same time, it is understandable why he grouped UN Security and Peacekeeping troops and US troops together, UN Security troops and US troops were both protecting UN food convoys.