Talk:Operation Provide Relief

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Was this mission eventually successful? I have figures on hand that state that it may have been because so many people had died by the time the US went in on Operation Provide Relief that the death rate slowed. Red Herring perhaps? It is in Michael Maran's book "The Road To Hell".

I'm going to go ahead and edit the article. Let me know if you disagree.

I also think this article needs to be renamed UNOSOM I, and a seperate article raised about PROVIDE RELIEF. Despite the significant American involvement, it was not an American mission but rather one of the UN. It is innacurate to say that UNOSOM and PROVIDE RELIEF were the same mission: they were not, and as it is this article provides too much of an American bias.

I don't want to take away from the people who were trying to make it a success, but is this article a bit simplistic? One journalist said it would have been a better idea just to dump dollar bills all over the place than to conduct these operations. Sorry for being vague.