Just an observation: over the weekend, I finally saw "Blackhawk Down." Good movie; not great, but good.
What was interesting was just how angry I was during the movie. I wanted those G.I.s to machine gun down every "skinny" (the movie's term for Somalian rebels) in sight. I felt particular pain when the U.S. troops were "evacuated" from the city - which looked more like a rescued.
I have a feeling Somalia may happen again, but in Iraq.
The Polish Army is coming into Iraq to help the U.S. with some of the "security" efforts. With that, our troops will have more ability to hunt down these terrorists who have flowed in from gawd knows where; Iran in particular is my guess.
But I just don't know. I'm weighing between whether this will become another Somalia or another Vietnam. It does not look good. I still maintain that Bush, his cabinet and advisors were horribly derelict in seeing the forest for the trees here. Nothing yet has changed my mind.
BTW: where are the WMDs?
