Our Marines created order out

of total chaos. Starvation was over, peace was established, and then the

Marines left. Immediately, the warlord Adid began stealing the food and

killing the Somalis. Without any enforcing authority, the UN forces could

not maintain the fragile peace.

Our valiant Rangers and Delta

Force were sent to capture Adid, but the entire city of Mogadishu turned

out to slaughter them. Every man, woman and child who was strong enough

to hold a gun had one and used it. America's husbands, sons, brothers

and fathers were sent on this mission without being properly armed, thanks

to the non-inhaling President Clinton and his flower children staff.

As for the Somalis being portrayed

as "grinning beasts," if you watched the History Channel's documentary,

MSNBC's documentary, or Fox's documentary on the true story of "Black

Hawk Down," you would know just how accurate that description is.

Although the movie did not show the stripped bodies of our soldiers being

dragged through the streets of Somalia, it was graphically shown in the

History Channel documentary. What better word would describe natives grinning

from ear to ear and literally jumping up and down on our dead soldiers'

bodies? How about savages or barbarians? This was not revisionist history.

And, as for the actors looking

like they belonged on the runway, in my opinion, there was only one "pretty

face" among them. The other actors don't look any better and certainly

not as masculine as those who lived "Black Hawk Down." The Rangers

and Delta Force I've seen interviewed could hold their own in any "looks"

contest.

Since we are diametrically

opposed in our review of this movie, I ask Americans to judge this movie

for themselves. I believe it deserves an A.

Cheryl B. Livingston

Fayetteville

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