OPERATION "Restore Hope' caused massive confusion.
Weren't the US marines who waded ashore in Somalia last September there to stabilise the country, put an end to warlord cenestersm and create the basis for ensuring food aid got to the people?
And didn't this come at a time when the only hope for the Boshelmeted UN troops who stood ing?
The sight of UN troops mowing down demonstrators and usIng high-toch rocket attacks to obliterate car parks, with hundreds of chilian casualties, puts an end to all those illusions Ethnic cleansing in ex-Yugoslavia has not been halted by the Intervention of UN troops; indeed their tokenistic presence cuse for retaining the arms emSo what precisely is the USabout? Why have they intervened massively there, and not in ex-Yugoslavia?
The US has big strategic interworried by the growth of Islamic fundamentalism in the Sudan.
It socks a military foothold in the region, and of course a new demonstration of its role as