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Black Hawk Frown - U.S. Military Returns to Somalia / Amanda Sperber

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🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

We welcome investigative journalist Amanda Sperber back to the program to talk about her recent Baffler article "Prelude to a Redeployment - Listening for signs of the Americans in Kismayo, Somalia." After the interview we present a brand new Moment of Truth with Jeff Dorchen, and declare the winning answer to this week's Question from Hell!. https://thebaffler.com/latest/prelude-to-a-redeployment-sperber

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0:00.0

Oh, The This is hell.

0:30.0

hell.

0:47.9

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime because this is how we're we here in the United States are pretty clueless when it comes to US foreign policy and how the US military operates overseas

0:51.8

throughout the forever, or the ongoing war on terror, and don't kid yourself that we're still going on and will be into the foreseeable future.

1:03.0

We've been kept pretty clueless as to what's taking place

1:06.7

the numerous sites where the US is still engaged in war.

1:10.7

And by that, I mean, not only engaged in a shooting war, but engaged in the supplying of weapons and intelligence, both of which lead to the deaths of innocent civilians.

1:19.0

In places like the nation we will be discussing today, Somalia. But here's the thing we do not really

1:24.6

know what is happening in Somalia. Even journalists who go to Somalia to find out have difficulty

1:30.6

learning what's taking place there.

1:32.6

Even locals appear to be uninformed.

1:36.0

Sure, some business interests there

1:38.3

cannot wait for the US return since President Trump recalled troops from Somalia as one of his last actions

1:44.7

while in office. But that didn't stop the Biden administration from getting

1:50.1

re-involved in the war as they now have reportedly redeployed 500 troops to Somalia.

1:57.7

We will try to figure out what the hell is going on in Somalia with someone who is

2:01.6

trying to figure that out too when in a few minutes we will have the return of

2:06.4

multi award winning freelance foreign correspondent and investigative journalist Amanda Spurber who returns to this is held to discuss her new article at the

2:16.0

Baffler, Prelude to a redeployment listening for signs of the Americans in Kissmaio, Somalia.

2:24.0

Amanda's work has prompted charges to military policy in the past,

2:28.9

open congressional letters signed by leading house members reports by organizations

2:34.1

including Amnesty International Human Rights Watch and Air Wars and shifted

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