>america intervenes in somalia during the outbreak of civil war>ended up getting BTFOHow should America have handled the situation?
>>17441407By killing a lot of Africans which they did.
>Somali DEMONcratic Party
>>17441407>How should America have handled the situation?By not entering the country whatsoever, that entire UN operation was a mistake and caused the situation to become worse.>let's constantly harass the locals with our helicopters and kill dozens of respected elders who were in the middle of peace talksYeah nothing could go wrong there
>>17441425Maybe that was the point.
>>17441407>>ended up getting BTFOOnly occurred because the Americans literally did not evaluate the situation seriously. That and a lot of their Somali allies got treated like shit so even when they revealed key info to them it basically wasn't leveraged right.Like "people warned the domestic security agency about groomed terrorist on website but they didn't act on it until after the truck massacre" levels of neglect.