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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: thundley4 on April 13, 2009, 02:52:15 PM
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April 13 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. military is considering attacks on pirate bases on land and aid for the Somali people to help stem ship hijackings off Africa’s east coast, defense officials said.
The military also is drawing up proposals to aid the fledgling Somalia government to train security forces and develop its own coast guard, said the officials, who requested anonymity. The plans will be presented to the Obama administration as it considers a coordinated U.S. government and international response to piracy, the officials said.
The effort follows the freeing yesterday of Richard Phillips, a U.S. cargo ship captain held hostage since April 8 by Somali pirates. Security analysts said making shipping lanes safe would require disrupting the pirates’ support network on land.
“There really isn’t a silver-bullet solution other than going into Somalia and rooting out the bases†of the pirates, said James Carafano, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based group.
In 1992, under then-President George H.W. Bush, U.S. forces that landed in Somalia to confront widespread starvation found themselves in the middle of a civil war. Forty-two Americans died before former President Bill Clinton pulled out the troops in 1994.
Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=aYhvgOfyTmYA)
I think something along these lines are what is needed.
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I doubt a prolonged campaign is in the offing as there are--legitimately--bigger fish to fry; but anything else would be of dubious value.
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Smells like 1992-94 all over again. Painfully internationalist, unfocused, shifting mission, fundamental indigenous problems that are irresolvable without a large and long-term nation-building commitment, and an administration that knows as much about the military as Bill Clinton knows about a life of abstinence.
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Smells like 1992-94 all over again. Painfully internationalist, unfocused, shifting mission, fundamental indigenous problems that are irresolvable without a large and long-term nation-building commitment, and an administration that knows as much about the military as Bill Clinton knows about a life of abstinence.
:yeahthat:
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as Bill Clinton knows about a life of abstinence.
He is getting to that point in life where he may learn about that....... :rotf:
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Bill Clinton knows about a life of abstinence.
He is getting to that point in life where he may learn about that....... :rotf:
Bubba's gonna be doing an extreme home make-over on that Chappaquah manor into the new Playboy Mansion.
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Hi,
From what I heard on Fox there are terrorist training camps in Somalia. If the US is smart they will call them Pirates Cove and they will be destroyed.
regards,
5412
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Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=aYhvgOfyTmYA)
I think something along these lines are what is needed.
http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com/2009/04/edit-that-out-of-history-books.html
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Smells like 1992-94 all over again. Painfully internationalist, unfocused, shifting mission, fundamental indigenous problems that are irresolvable without a large and long-term nation-building commitment, and an administration that knows as much about the military as Bill Clinton knows about a life of abstinence.
I still remember that smell. I was hoping to never have to experience it again.