The Consequence of Fighting War

      One time driving in Acworth, Georgia I saw a home that was decorated for their child in the war. They had signs that said “Bring them home” and red, white, and blue everywhere. While parents sons or daughters are off at war, the parents think about what could happen to their children and if they will make it home. What they do not think about is how many civilians, that have nothing to do with the war, are being killed where their sons or daughters are. In The Battle of Mogadishu America invades Somalia because Mohamed Adid is starving everyone in Somalia. Food trucks from Red Cross deliver food and Adid and his supporters shoot at anyone or anything around the food truck. America went into this battle to fight for our morals and to help the Somalian people. That sounds like something honorable and noble until you read “Does Black Hawk Down Portray an American Crime” by Jeffrey Goldberg. His article raises questions about if America committed a crime by killing so many civilians in The Battle of Mogadishu.
   
      Goldberg gathered information that eighty percent of Somali deaths in the battle were Somalian civilians. America’s original intent was to come to Somalia to stop Aidid from starving people and in the end we came and killed the people we were trying to help. The article describes a woman who lost two of her children when the black hawk helicopter came down on her home. Her name is Hawo Hussein Adan and she feels everything would be better if the Ethiopians and Westerners would leave Somalia alone.

      Conversations like this make us question if we are doing the right thing. Should we be intruding on someone’s land to kill people that we are supposedly helping? Before, I would think yes, when a “leader” is hurting people in another country and we have the power to help, why not? Now that I know how abundant the causalities are I wonder if I am right.