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Originally posted by baltassoc
Yes we did. And yet the country is run by armed gangs, for exactly the reasons you cite. Intervention is not as simple as knocking some tinpot dictator off his throne. It's a lesson we failed to learn in Somalia, in Haiti, and even to some extent in the Balkins, with disasterous effect now in Iraq.
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Right. Not to be taken lightly. And Haiti is a warning that should be heeded - we can't expect to do these things with 200 hundred troops and a ship anchored off the coast, even when the people are willing. Certainly not in a place like Haiti; they needed too much, and we didn't do it.
Balkans, Balkans!
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