We should negotiate with these somalis the way we did in '93 while securing the realease of Michael Durant, the captured Blackhawk pilot in the failed raid. According to Bowden's book, while negotiating the release, the somali warlord started out by making all these ridiculous demands...money, weapons, an apology, etc...
The U.S. negotiator supposedly sat there silent and listened to the whole ridiculous excercise without saying a word. When the warlords were done, he said "you fought 100 American foot soldiers, killed 19, wounded more, and captured one. You did this at the cost of over 1000 somalis killed. You have not begun to witness the full military might of the U.S. If you don't hand him over....there will be bombers, aircraft carriers, and brigades of marines storming your beaches. When it is all said and done, every man, woman, child, cat, dog, goat, and chicken will be gone. There will simply be nothing left of Mogadishu. You're going to hand him over, end of story, end of negotiations." And then left the room. Or something to that effect....
Of course, he was released a week later.
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