Gayle Smith

Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress

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Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress; former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council

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In 1992, after 18 American solders were killed in Mogadishu, the US pulled out of Somalia, and United Nations operations were scaled down.  After 15 years of bloody chaos, the…

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