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Civil War In Black Hawk Down
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In the film Black Hawk Down, a civil war has broken out in Somalia and a UN military operation has been authorized with a peacekeeping mission. Militia loyal to Mohamed Aidid declared war on any UN people. As a response to that, the U.S. Army Rangers, Delta Force, are deployed in Mogadishu to captured Aidid, who claims to be the president of the country.

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I think one important historical point is when the one prisoner says, “This is a civil war, you shouldn’t be here.” Because there are a few wars in US history where we should have had no part in, like Vietnam. The US had no reason to deploy troops there when it was their own civil war. We suffered a huge death toll, one that could have been

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