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Anonymous asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

Are we going to invade Somalia next?

U.S.Navy warships have fired on pirate vessels off the coast of Somalia and are escorting cargo ships in Somalian territorial waters(at the request of their government).Do the "sky is falling" liberals out there think that we are going to invade Somalia next?

Source is CNN.com news article posted today.

Update:

D C Timberstone,

Good observation,we had a limited presence and were basically run out of dodge by thugs and had a President more concerned with getting a BJ from some overweight groupie than attending to foreign policy issues in an unstable region.

Update 2:

Shanelad:

Aeii,they be pirates in them waters,curse their bilge sucking hides.Arrrgh.

Seriously,it's an international problem,they are hijacking ships and crews and holding them for ransom.If not paid quickly enough,they kill a crew member or two to make their point.What we don't hear about are the small vessels that are seized;they simply kill the crew and utilize the small vessel for other attacks.The weapons of choice are AK's and RPG's.

Update 3:

Samantha,

A little,not a lot.If we listen to the isolationists,shouldn't we just butt out and let them solve their own issues with the pirates?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I believe we were there during the last administration.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Probably Iran before Somalia. We've already captured Iranian soldiers in Iraq. Of course, Obama wants to bomb Pakistan, lol :)

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    No, we are going to invade Iran next, unless the Iranians give up their nuclear program, which I don't expect them to do. Arggh, on the coast of Somalia, there be pirates, arrggghh.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The United States was there from 1992-1994, and failed to take any form of control. In other words they got a good hiding and had to pull out.

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  • 1 decade ago

    I think the goal is to take over the world.

  • 1 decade ago

    No, we tried that and found it a problem. Guarding international waterways, however, is positive.

  • 1 decade ago

    I thought we were too busy trying to justify a war with Iran....

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Only if there are huge deposits of oil there.

  • 1 decade ago

    Do they have oil?

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