In the interests of full disclosure I must tell you that I myself had
written against President Clinton's deployment of troops to Somalia.
But for different reasons. I had suggested that Clinton was sending in
the soldiers with their hands tied behind their backs. That he wasn't
letting them defend themselves when Somali terrorists attacked them
using Somali women and children as human shields. And that he hadn't
given the soldiers a clear winnable mission but had locked them into an
undefined waltz of death involving a perpetual attempt to be humane and
clever, abseiling from helicopters to their doom while Muslim murderers
danced on their graves. I thought Clinton was incompetent. B...

In the interests of full disclosure I must tell you that I myself had
written against President Clinton's deployment of troops to Somalia.
But for different reasons. I had suggested that Clinton was sending in
the soldiers with their hands tied behind their backs. That he wasn't
letting them defend themselves when Somali terrorists attacked them
using Somali women and children as human shields. And that he hadn't
given the soldiers a clear winnable mission but had locked them into an
undefined waltz of death involving a perpetual attempt to be humane and
clever, abseiling from helicopters to their doom while Muslim murderers
danced on their graves. I thought Clinton was incompetent. But you can
see how my reasoning on Somalia differed from Mary Robinson's. I'd have
let the troops go in as long as the troops knew they were the good guys
and had a free hand to eliminate every terror militia in the country.
Robbo thought any foreign intervention was somehow offside. Mary with
her usual Soviet era thinking had concluded the Yanks only wanted
Somali real estate. Oh dear. This is the problem with fembo commie
pinkos. It doesn't matter how wrong they are. They still keep elevating
each other. The Irish Times has been going in to bat for Mary Robinson
for three decades. She can do no wrong. Robbo went from the Presidency
of Ireland to a United Nations human rights sinecure. With her unerring
instincts for being wrong about everything she leapt brielfy back into
the limelight after America liberated Afghanistan.