SOMALIA REVISITED

[kellychaos]

Exactly, those people and the leaders who got them into such a lather ... not the general populace. It's sort of like the way the missle program worked as a deterent for years. When people know that evil acts will be returned, more or less in kind, they are less likely to commit such acts ... especially if caught and handled in an efficient and timely manner. The more we let them get away with such acts of aggression over time, the more we are the laughing stock of the rest of the muslim world and will increasingly be maligned, attacked and thought of an weak, ineffective push-overs and it only gets worse for our troops from there. Since we're already involved, we need to get a handle on it. There's simply no turning back now. That would be like saying that the lives lost so far were for naught and I wouldn't want THAT resting in the minds of the families of those military members.