Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"Disaster for UNOSOM II, as it was now called, was just around the corner. It came on the night of October 3, 1993, when American special forces under U.S. Central Command (and therefore headquartered in Florida) attempted an independent and secret raid on the Somali warlord General Muhammad Farrah Aideed that went badly astray. The eighteen American casualties in this Mogadishu battle were not large—certainly nothing compared with the numbers of Somalians dying each day from malnutrition—but the repeated showing on television of a dead American soldier being dragged through the streets of the lawless city was enough. Public revulsion in the United States forced a luckless Clinton administration to withdraw its troops within another few months, and UNOSOM II itself was terminated by March 1995, a horrible failure. Not only had the people of Somalia not been enabled to move forward to a state of democracy and justice and peace, which was surely the biggest failure, but the world body had suffered a heavy blow to its own reputation. Peacekeeping everywhere had been put under a cloud, with devastating consequences in Rwanda in the year following . . ." [Kennedy: Parliament of Man, Kindle Edition, Location 1605-16]