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And do the job Bill Clinton was too fat, soft, lazy and distracted to do.

U.S. Strike in Somalia Targets Al-Qaeda Figure

A U.S. Navy AC-130 gunship attacked suspected al-Qaeda members inside Somalia on Sunday, and U.S. sources said the operation may have hit a senior terrorist figure.

The strike in southern Somalia was launched at night from the U.S. Central Command base in neighboring Djibouti. It was based on joint military-CIA intelligence and on information provided by Ethiopian and Kenyan military forces operating in the area.

More than 2 million civilians have fled their homes and hundreds of thousands have died in the Sudan conflict.

It was the first U.S. military action inside Somalia since 1994, when President Bill Clinton withdrew U.S. troops after a failed operation in Mogadishu that led to the deaths of 18 Army Rangers and Delta Force special operations soldiers.

Dick Morris, who these days is usually wrong about everything, was smart tonight when he noted on Hannity & Colmes that this was good for President Bush–who needs to show the world that the war on Islamists is larger than Iraq. My note here is Somalia is also a reminder of what happens when you leave a country to the savages; you may be able to avoid it in the short term, but eventually you’ll still have to face it.

Clinton and his wife, the self-obsessed cowards they are, preferred to leave the enemy to the next president. And when confronted by Chris Wallace about abandoning Somalia to AQ in 1993, never forget Clinton’s obsfucation and meltdown about the issue. With all our domestic disagreements with President Bush, he has taken on this fight as best he can, and has brought us full circle.

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