NEWS UPDATE: MSNBC reports that the lifeboat has reached a point due to natural drift to within 20 miles of Somali coast.
(Side note, MSNBC is LOL as they show in this video a Spruance Class Destroyer and a, Iowa Class Battleship in the graphic (haven't you noticed some news agencies are now calling the A. Burkes Battleships (more LOLs)))
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Originally Posted by UnderseaLCpl
That's a great idea and I support it fully as long as America isn't part of it.
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Why shouldn't the US play a roll in it, if the US didn't lead the backing out after the Battle of Mogadishu, there may have been a chance of bringing security and order in that country. Rather that administration, having extended the mission objections without providing adequate support to said mission, did not provide overwhelming force to achieve the objectives, thus leading to the
Osama Bin Laden coming to the belief that the US was only a "paper tiger". But that's a different arguement, that relates to it, but isn't directly connected.
I do see the US as having a roll in this idea, but definatly not a leading one. The US has one of the few global logistic abilities that very few other nations posess. However, at the same time, it is overstretched (until the eventual draw down of US forces in Iraq), even with the continuing growth of its active force (i.e. the increase in BCTs). What I would like to see is an AU or other region power, such as India, take the lead, with other nations providing support and expert know how that the lead nation lacks.