ANNOUNCER: Bringing you the world for 20 years, this is CNN.</s>RICHARD BLYSTONE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I think war, in my experience, is probably one of the least dangerous of the dangerous things to cover. Civil disturbances, things that involve great hatred are the most dangerous things. Operation Restore Hope was a manifestation of U.S. President George Bush's new world order. It was also a function of television reaching into people's homes, reporting famine, bloodshed and causing average people all around the world to say to their governments, we must do something about this. And so an alliance of governments, principally the United States, tried to do something about it so that Somalia could pick up and become a Democratic country. And, of course, it didn't work. Mogadishu was an example of one of the most dangerous kinds of conflict situation: armed people. There had been no real civil structure in Somalia for so long that the folk ways that usually keep people under control had almost totally evaporated. It was very apparent the reason all this was being done: malnutrition on a vast scale, thousands and thousands of people uprooted from their homes, lacking everything -- food, water and just with the clothes on their backs.
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