Originally Posted by Workshop_Willy

You must have been under a rock. It was the most shameful lack of action on the part of the US (and the rest of the world) that has ever been. Reporting in my view was a little anemic, but then without any effective peacekeepers in the country, what safety would reporters have had?

Following so shortly after Task Force Ranger's epic battle in Somalia (does anyone else realize that TFR inflicted over 1000 enemy casualties that night? -- a resounding military victory that the press turned into a "defeat") the cowardly Clinton administration was loathe to get involved in Africa. Without US leadership, the rest of the world simply let it go as well.

Now, for those of you who would razz me for claiming it was a lack of US leadership, just think about the alternative explanation for the lack of action by the rest of the civilized world, eh?