From: HADCRJAM@admin.uh.edu (MILLER, JIMMY A.)
Newsgroups: alt.current-events.somalia
Subject: Canadians and a bit of an apology
Date: 15 Dec 1992 14:42:21 GMT
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In <92Dec14.172736est.56@orasis.vis.toronto.edu> liuyh@vis.toronto.edu writes:

> In article <1gia4oINN1b9@menudo.uh.edu> HADCRJAM@admin.uh.edu (MILLER, JIMMY A.) writes:
> >
> [......] 
> >  France, Germany, the UK, Australia, Canada and maybe one or two others might
> >have the ability to go to Somalia with enough troops to make a difference.
> >  Why not complain to them for NOT going instead of the US because it did 
> >(I don't know how many Legionaires France has sent, but Canada sent some-
> >thing like 150.                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >Wow.  Be still my heart.)?  First they complain that we do nothing, then 
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >they bitch and moan about ulterior motives.  Pick something and stick with 
> >it.
> 
> Alright, this statement cannot be unchallengled.  Canada had pledged about
> 1000 troops to Somalia as combat troops not as traditional peacekeepers,
> I believe they are a couple of days late due to a nasty snow storm 
> that closed most of the airports in the northeast.  A Canadian supply 
> ship is just off the coast of Somalia with the US navy ships.  

  Sorry, I had heard a report about 150 troops going in, and it sounded like
the first and only ones to go.

> Somebody is Bitching, Moaning and Whining here, but I don't think it's
> the Canadians.   

  Uh-oh.  I see I have worded things poorly.  A bit of an apology is in order,
here.

  I wasn't out to impugn the *Canadians* in particular.  The "they" in my post
was not directed at Canada, but at ALL the whiners, of ALL nationalities.  My 
point was that people were yelling and screaming simply because it was the US 
mostly ram-rodding this little mission.  I was wondering why they were so angry
at the Americans for doing a job other countries had chosen to ignore.  Why, I 
asked, were they not angry at other nations for doing little or nothing?

> the world should be grateful about US taking the lead in Somalia,
> it should, 'cause it's probably the only power capable of such an operation.
> But let us the US & other nations' troops do their job and accomplish
> the mission, and lay off the chest beating & finger pointing "You
> are not doing your share of work" whining on the sideline, shall we?  

  I am not "Chest beating" simply for the fun of doing so.  As long as others
choose to *complain* about the US taking the lead, I will attack them for not
doing so.

  I am sure that Canada is doing what it can, and given the numbers you quoted,
I most certainly do apologize for spreading false information and deriding
their efforts in this matter.


semper fi,

Jammer Jim Miller 
Texas A&M University '89 and '91
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