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An 8 page overview of U.S. focus, successes, and failures in these countries. This paper assesses the lessons learned. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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during the twentieth century. Since World War II, in fact, our country has had troops stationed in one country or another. This is true despite the fact that
we have only been officially involved in foreign warfare on a couple of precise occasions during this time period. Our involvement in foreign countries has often been justified from
the perspective of targeting humanitarian rather than military objectives. Somalia and Bosnia are two examples of countries where the U.S. has stationed troops their with the precise objective to
better humanitarian conditions. In both of these countries the U.S. not only accomplished much but we learned many lessons. Our involvement in
Somalia was initiated in 1992 during the George Bush Senior administration. It was part of the larger U.N. humanitarian mission in that country that was dubbed Operation Restore Hope.
Conditions in Somalia were horrid. The country and its 300,000 people were embroiled in civil war and suffered at the hands of famine and disease (Neary and Khalid,
1993). Warlords had the country in a stranglehold. They had raped, plundered, and committed one atrocity after another (Neary and Khalid, 1993).
One would think that given those circumstances U.S. intervention would be something that would be supported, if not demanded, by Congress and by U.S. citizens as a
whole. Since World War II, after all, not only had the world come to regard the U.S. as the dominant world power and the one that was expected to
step in in such situations, so too had the U.S. populace. In the Somalia affair, however, many were critical of Bushs intentions to intervene. U.S. Congressman John Murtha
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