Chapter 218: U.S. Response
Three days later.
After three days of discussion, the United States finally released a set of data, but this time the Americans did not tell the real situation, but found another reason to beautify their actions this time.
According to the official US announcement of the cause of the incident, on 1 April, black militants, at the instigation of Farah, stormed the US camp, causing more than 10 casualties in the US camp, and the Italian and British camps each suffered casualties.
The Americans received information on the second day, discovered Farah's location, and decided to send troops to arrest Farah, but due to the command error of Commander Andre, the American army entered the ambush of the black people during the operation, causing such heavy casualties.
In the whole report, I did not see any mistakes about the Pentagon, including the Pentagon's intelligence mistakes, indecisive support, and other various issues were not raised, and all of them were pushed on top of Andrei's head.
After the fall of the Black Hawk, Andrei was already ordered, detained, and the Americans sent a new commander to Mogadishu, and at the same time Andrei was waiting for him with a military court.
In the United States, there was a great reaction to this incident, and the media typed the headline, an April Fool's joke, thinking that all this was fake, but everyone was joking, the United States would not have such a big casualty, you must know that the Gulf War that just ended not long ago, the United States did not pay such a big price in the face of the first power in the Middle East, and there was such a big loss in Africa.
After the US authorities published the list of casualties and found out that their loved ones had died in Mogadishu, the angry group leaders held a demonstration, of course, this demonstration was against the government and Andrei, after all, the American people are not stupid, they know that Andrei is just the one who pulled out the blame.
Of course, even so, Andrei got some nicknames, the stupidest commander of the twentieth century, the stupidest man in American history, the sinner of America, etc., and some angry people, holding Andrei's picture and starting to burn, clamoring to kill this stupid guy and make him responsible for the death of these soldiers.
There are also some Americans, although they don't believe the official article, but there is no more information, they can only believe it, but they have taken their anger out on black people, and in some areas, there have been violent incidents again, and some angry white rightists have begun to attack some black people.
However, these things are not important things, and now the US authorities are finally relieved, thinking that they have successfully diverted the attention of the people and began to negotiate with the families of the casualties with all their might.
In addition to those family members, they may be in a state of grief because of the loss of their loved ones, but more Americans will quickly forget about it, for them, this is just an after-dinner conversation, who will really care?
And just as the U.S. government dragged on a little bit of time, British national television and several internationally renowned broadcasters broadcast a piece of news, once again making the situation serious.
First of all, a set of photos, April 1, April Fool's Day, a group of black people formed a demonstration, protesting the peacekeepers' interference in the internal affairs of Somalia, etc., the scene was very harmonious, the black people just carried out a demonstration, but when they arrived at the gate of the US military barracks, the Americans were all on alert.
Then there are the images of the Americans constantly massacring black civilians, and then there are the images of the Americans massacring prisoners outside Mogadishu, which is not the same as the news reported by the Americans before, and after these news pictures came out, the American people found that they seemed to have been deceived.
The thing was not that the blacks took the initiative to attack the camp as it was said at the time, but that the United States was suppressing the peaceful demonstrations of the blacks, although I don't know why the blacks also learned to demonstrate, but under the instigation of well-intentioned people, large-scale demonstrations still broke out, after all, in addition to the white right, there are some white lefts in the United States.
"Damn, what's going on with these pictures? And the people at the door, are they crazy? Our people were attacked, and we were the victims, damn Andrey, when he did these things, did he pull the blockade around him? Damn it! ”
The US authorities have a headache again, what they said before was written without any proof, but this time someone else took out photos, especially when the massacre of prisoners was carried out, the Americans could not wash their hands, no matter what the reason, the massacre of prisoners is not something that can be accepted by civilized society.
"What are we going to do? Can't be so passive! ”
Several leaders looked at each other, and the current American leaders are not the same jokes of later generations, they are much more mature in thinking and handling things, and they know how to deal with such unexpected situations.
"What did we stand out about this operation?"
This is a common means used by the Americans, they can turn a failed thing into a victory, for example, when the Philippines was lost, MacArthur was beaten by the Japanese, and he withdrew from the Philippines in embarrassment, losing tens of thousands of American soldiers, but the Americans only publicized MacArthur's sentence, I will come back, this product is also the character of the gray wolf, and he really went back, but it can't change his failure.
But now, the Americans remember MacArthur and only remember him as a five-star general, as for the past in the Philippines? Who remembers? Now this group of people is also trying to use this method to divert the attention of the people!
"Well, the four crew members of Super 64, after the crash, they did not sit still, but chose to deal with the blacks, one of them is a Chinese-American named Yu Yang, in the process of escaping, he also rescued some hostages kidnapped by Somali pirates!"
Bush Sr. frowned: "Chinese-American? Anyone else? All four are of Chinese descent? ”
"No, there are John, only the two of them survived, the Chinese was seriously injured, and the one named John was much luckier, not seriously injured, only slightly injured, and is now repairing in Mogadishu!"
"Then the two of them, cite their examples, publicize more, by the way, I will award them medals!"