Comments on: The Lost Lessons of “Black Hawk Down” https://www.isegoria.net/2013/10/the-lost-lessons-of-black-hawk-down/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:26:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Al Fin https://www.isegoria.net/2013/10/the-lost-lessons-of-black-hawk-down/comment-page-1/#comment-984313 Al Fin Sat, 05 Oct 2013 13:59:24 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=33025#comment-984313 Meanwhile, parts of London and Chicago are coming to resemble some of the more unruly aspects of Mogadishu. Can the US or UK learn the lessons of BHD before the next friendly force is cut off and helicopters crash in the middle of a city-wide hostile ghetto rising?

Where will the next “Black Hawk Down” take place? Perhaps in your home town.

History is interesting. Even when you are living it and are too busy to understand that it is history it is interesting — if only in retrospect.

]]> By: Anomaly UK https://www.isegoria.net/2013/10/the-lost-lessons-of-black-hawk-down/comment-page-1/#comment-981204 Anomaly UK Fri, 04 Oct 2013 07:10:40 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=33025#comment-981204 Yeah, if you’re talking about ways of messing up a war, “being on the wrong side” kind of dwarfs the rest.

]]> By: Steve Johnson https://www.isegoria.net/2013/10/the-lost-lessons-of-black-hawk-down/comment-page-1/#comment-980467 Steve Johnson Thu, 03 Oct 2013 23:16:46 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=33025#comment-980467 “Sometimes the Least Bad Option is Good Enough…”

Gee, you’d almost think that the State Department didn’t want someone who was strategically allied with the American military and effective in a civil war running the country.

How strange.

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