Jaime m
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the movie is out now and the more observant will realize bhd was a lop-sided victory for the americans. for me, it wasn't so much a battle as it was a massacre of somalis, and frankly, i don't have much sympathy for those somalis who fought against american troops. still, ...the idea of just massacring them, day after day, in order to feed them...i dunno.
Well first and foremost you have to remeber the reason the U.S and the U.N were there to begin with, to end the civil war( more like clan war) and help the country avert starvation. The only way to do that was to put an end to Aidid and his clan.like what was said before, all the other rival clans agreed to cease fire and let the U.s and U.n forces come in and try to help the people. But Aidid wasn't about to put down his weapons and let go of the power he had, No way.
As far as it being a Massacre,just because one side(U.S) has better equipment and better training and kill more of the enemy does in no way make it a massacre. I guess we should even the odds and let anyone we fight get free shots at our troops so the body count can be more even and fair. That would be a hell of a way to fight wars, don't you think? For the most part the only somalies going out of there way to fight the americans were Aidid's people, many who were hardly starving and most defintley not the ones who desperately needed the food.
What i find interesting is how some people peg Black Hawk down as anti-war. Sure seeing people blown apart in gruesome ways can be used as an eye opener to the "horrors of Combat" but i can understand that without it. The movie doesn't try to show and say anything more than what lenghts people in combat will go through for each other,the brotherhood that exists between those that face life and death together.
IMHO BHD also sets out to give those who were killed what they did not get at the time of there deaths, Honor.