LMAO. Pres. Bush Sr. set Pres. Clinton up. Not necessarily deliberately, but set up regardless. G.H.W.B. got us into a humanitarian operation (Somalia) that was insanely risky at the end of his tenure (because of the pressure from political left). Bush Sr.'s mistake was the belief that you could have a 'neutral' deployment (it wasn't neutral, we were favoring the people that the warlords didn't want fed). Still, he could have recovered as he had a clear timeline for withdrawal, and a clear, limited scope of operations. If W.J.C. had followed the plan laid down by Bush Sr. there wouldn't have been anywhere near the problem. Clinton got (misguidedly) altruistic and expanded the scope of the operations, trying to negotiate with thugs. In the process, he (Pres. Clinton) placed State Dept and the Military in a more-than-than usually advisarial relationship.
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