Bill Clinton

====Somalia====
[[File:President Clinton talks with Col. Paul Fletcher, USAF.jpeg|thumb|[[Colonel (United States)|Col.]] [[Paul J. Fletcher|Paul Fletcher]], [[United States Air Force|USAF]] and Clinton speak before boarding [[Air Force One]], November 4, 1999]]
American troops had first entered [[Somalia]] during the [[Foreign policy of the George H. W. Bush administration|Bush administration]] in response to a humanitarian crisis and [[Somali Civil War|civil war]]. Though initially involved to assist humanitarian efforts, the Clinton administration shifted the objectives set out in the mission and began pursuing a policy of attempting to neutralize Somali warlords. In 1993, during the [[Battle of Mogadishu (1993)|Battle of Mogadishu]], [[MH-60 Black Hawk|two U.S. helicopters]] were shot down by [[rocket-propelled grenade]] attacks to their [[tail rotor]]s, trapping soldiers behind enemy lines. This resulted in an urban battle that killed 18 American soldiers, wounded 73 others, and resulted in one being taken prisoner.<ref name="NPR">{{cite web|title=What A Downed Black Hawk In Somalia Taught America|url=https://www.npr.org/2013/10/05/229561805/what-a-downed-black-hawk-in-somalia-taught-america|website=[[NPR]]|date=October 5, 2013|access-date=March 3, 2022}}</ref> Television news programs depicted the supporters of warlord [[Mohammed Aidid]] desecrating the corpses of troops.<ref name="NPR"/> The backlash resulting from the incident prompted in a drop in support for American intervention in the country and coincided with a more cautious use of troops throughout the rest of the Clinton administration.<ref name="NPR"/> Following a subsequent national security policy review, U.S. forces were withdrawn from Somalia and later conflicts were approached with fewer soldiers on the ground.<ref>{{cite news |title=The people killed them. Chopped them up. I consider myself lucky |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/1993/oct/09/usa |work=The Guardian |date=October 9, 1993}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dauber |first1=Cori Elizabeth |title=The Shot Seen 'Round the World: The Impact of the Images of Mogadishu on American Military Operations |journal=Rhetoric & Public Affairs |date=December 1, 2001 |volume=4 |issue=4 |pages=653–687 |doi=10.1353/rap.2001.0066 |id={{Project MUSE|29928}} |jstor=41940265 |s2cid=153565083 }}</ref>