Black Hawk Down

During the 2000 U.S. presidential election campaign, then Republican candidate George W. Bush harshly criticized the pursuit of “nation-building” as a foreign policy objective. Bush undoubtedly hoped that American voters would remember not only the disastrous results of U.S. “nation-building” efforts in Vietnam but more recently those in Somalia, where Americans watched on television an angry mob drag the body of a dead U.S. soldier through the streets of Mogadishu. Bush's father had sent U.S. troops to that African nation in December 1992 to assist the United Nations in providing relief assistance to the Somali people. Six months later, the Clinton administration ordered redeployed U.S. forces to capture a warlord named Mohamed Farrah Aidid. On October 3, 1993, Task Force Ranger launched a mission to capture two of Aidid's top advisers that ignited a battle with Aidid's militia and escalated into an incredible bloodbath after a Somali shot down the

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