Somalia, Another Bush Nation Building Failure

Remember Mogadishu? It was Bush I who put us there, I still believe as a poison pill for Bill Clinton, who had just defeated him in the Presidential race. I remember the landing - I was an Air Force officer at Ninth Air Force Headquarters at the time.

It appears that failure at nation building is a Bush family trait. Today Islamist militias forced the last of the Somali warlords, the very guys who drug the body of one of our helicopter pilots through the streets and who are currently receiving U. S. support, out of the Capital. Bush 1 was successful ultimately at creating an Islamic republic.

Bush II has only managed to create two failed states.