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Question….why is the movie we are about to watch, maybe, sort of, relevant to today, 2013?

It’s not

Ok, that was a lie, it is!!!!

Piracy!!!

No..lots and lots of piracy

Not Captain Jack Sparrow piracy, but the real deal piracy!

Masked Somali pirate Abdi Ali stands near a Taiwanese fishing vessel that washed up on shore after the pirates were paid a ransom and released the crew, in the pirate den of Hobyo, Somalia. Source: AP

Pirates flee from the German navy as the frigate Rheinland-Pfalz intercepted them in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia's coast on March 3, 2009. The German navy detained nine people on March 3, 2009 after they tried to attack a German merchant ship, German media reported. (REUTERS/Bundeswehr)

This handout photo shows Somali pirates hijacking the MV Faina, a cargo ship owned and operated by Kaalbye Shipping Ukraine on September 25, 2008. The pirates ultimately released the MV Faina and its cargo of 33 Soviet-era T-72 tanks plus other weapons on February 5, 2009 following a ransom payment of $3.2 million.(REUTERS/U.S. Naval Forces Central Command Public Affairs/Handout/Files)

In this photo released by the United States Navy, Somali pirates holding the merchant vessel MV Faina stand on the deck of the ship after a U.S. Navy request to check on the health and welfare of the ship's crew in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Somalia. (AP Photo/U.S.Navy, Petty Officer Jason Zalasky)

The crew of the hijacked Ukrainian merchant vessel MV Faina stand on the deck, under the watch of armed Somali pirates on November 9 after a US Navy request to check on their health and welfare, at sea off the coast of Somalia. (HO/AFP/Getty Images)

Somalia

Famine!!!!!!!!

Devastating Famine in Somalia

Semolina government sucks…well does not exist….ok civil war

Warlords fight each other for power

Somali warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid pictured in this June 1993

January 1991: Somali President Siad Barre's government is forced from power. By November, a struggle among clan warlords pushes Somalia into civil war. In the meantime, thousands of civilians die of starvation in a region-wide drought.

February 1992: Rival commanders sign a UN-sponsored cease-fire. And the UN deploys peacekeepers under a newly created United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM) to observe the cease-fire.

But fighting continues to escalate. In December, US Marines join UNOSOM.

1993: US forces target Somali warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid, who along with his rival warlord Ali Mahdi Mohamed are using food as a lever for power. They don’t let food get to the starving people.

US Marines fight Aidid and Mohamed. Kill about 2000 of them.

June 1993: 24 Pakistani peacekeepers with UNOSOM are killed by forces loyal to Somali warlord Aidid. This prompts nothing. The UN continues to operate as before.

“Technicals”

October 1993: 17 US army rangers are killed

US bodies are dragged through the street and shown on CNN

The body of a dead US soldier being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu.

March 1994: The US leaves Somalia. The UN leaves too.This event changed the way the US will operate in the world!!!

Until 9/11 the US will NOT help anyone, anywhere, for any reason!!

Haiti 1993

Bosnia

Rhwanda

August 1998 bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 224 people and wounded more than 5,000, the Clinton administration retaliated by targeting

Osama bin Laden in an August 20 missile strike on the al-Qa’ida training camps at Zahwar Kili in Afghanistan.

Then there was an idea to send in special forces to kill bin Laden

“Mogadisu Effect”

The Mogadishu Effect

When helping turns to fighting

The US doesn’t want to send soldiers into another county

Just to help the other county, you know like ‘humanitarian’ help

Why?

Well, our soldiers could, and do, get killed

We really, really don’t like thatWe really, really don’t like seeing our soldiers capture or their bodies dragged through the streets.

So, when should the US send soldiers?

Sarajevo, on May 18, 1995

Obama Considers Expanding Support for Syrian RebelsBy MARK LANDLER and RICK GLADSTONE A decision to supply arms would mark a policy shift for the United States, which has increased nonlethal aid but has been reluctant about taking greater military action in Syria.

U.N. Approves Peacekeeping Force for MaliBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESSPublished: April 25, 2013 at 2:43 PM ET

Pentagon steps up planning for potential military intervention in SyriaBy Barbara StarrThe Pentagon has in recent days stepped up planning for potential military intervention in the Syrian civil war, specifically because of growing evidence the regime may have used chemical weapons, CNN has learned.

Greater love hath no man than this,that a man lay down his life for his friends.John 15:13

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