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Originally Posted by Undertoad
This morning Belmont Club looks at Michael Yon's latest dispatch and points out bin Laden's response to Somalia. What gave him strength was American withdrawl
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What gave him strength is that America went into Somalia without any smoking gun. Insufficient reason to be there and no comprehension of WHY we entered are why the withdrawal was necessary AND why bin Laden would have been emboldened.
You would think we would have learned from Somalia about the dangers of invading a nation without a smoking gun. And yet even in the Cellar, some advocated the same mistake in Iraq using mythical reasons such as WMDs. And so bin Laden is laughing at America - emboldened by the extremist rhetoric that protected bin Laden. Some Americans were even so foolish as to think our own allies (Germany and France) were against us rather than first learn the lessons of Somalia and what those allies were warning about.
Bin Laden still runs free because too many Americans here forget where the smoking gun exists ... Afghanistan. So instead we blame Saddam for 11 September and run off to another Vietnam. Then when it becomes a quagmire, we then blame it on Somalia? Where does this extremist rhetoric come from?