Posted: 8/30/2010 5:59:17 AM EDT
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I just watched this last night, again. I hadn't seen it in a long time, and especially not since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
What a disaster that mission was. 
I was watching a show, I think it's called "Making the Cut" about special warfare schools. And they have a drill they do now that mimics what had to be done during that time. I'm glad to see that lessons are being learned, and applied, from bad stuff like BHD. |
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Technically speaking, the mission was a success. Fantastic movie and one of the few films that actually closely resembled the book it was based on. Correct me if I am wrong but wasn't the primary mission objective to capture Farrah Aidid? No. Two of his top administrators. |
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Technically speaking, the mission was a success. Fantastic movie and one of the few films that actually closely resembled the book it was based on. Correct me if I am wrong but wasn't the primary mission objective to capture Farrah Aidid? No. Two of his top administrators. This, but I wouldn't call it a success. Something about "getting everyone home alive..." 
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Technically speaking, the mission was a success. Fantastic movie and one of the few films that actually closely resembled the book it was based on. Correct me if I am wrong but wasn't the primary mission objective to capture Farrah Aidid? No. Two of his top administrators. This, but I wouldn't call it a success. Something about "getting everyone home alive..." The mission was to capture two high ranking officials in the Adid administration. We did that. We achieved the objective. That makes it a success. On top of that, we had a kill ratio of 200-1. |
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Technically speaking, the mission was a success. Fantastic movie and one of the few films that actually closely resembled the book it was based on. Correct me if I am wrong but wasn't the primary mission objective to capture Farrah Aidid? No. Two of his top administrators. This, but I wouldn't call it a success. Something about "getting everyone home alive..."
The cry that the mission was a failure is a liberal meme. While it is always a tragedy when our soldiers are killed in the line of duty, to say that a mission is a "failure" when our soldiers are killed (yet all mission parameters are achieved) is not only factually incorrect but a misnomer of how we define success. The mission resulted in the capture of Aidids's top two lieutenants, and resulted in the deaths of nearly a thousand Somali fighters. We left Somalia not long after, not because we had been beaten, but because our gutless president didn't have the stomach for American casualties of any kind. The irony is tragic, because many of those casualties could have been prevented if Clinton had allowed American tanks on Somali soil. |
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Technically speaking, the mission was a success. Fantastic movie and one of the few films that actually closely resembled the book it was based on. Correct me if I am wrong but wasn't the primary mission objective to capture Farrah Aidid? Actually i thought the movie differed too much form the book to get that kind of credit. And no, the was a raid to get on of hit lieutenants |