black hawk down

Did anyone catch the history channel show, 'the true story of black hawk
down'? I am pretty sure it was history channel. It covered much of what the
book did. It interviewed people involved in it (US and somalian). It is
supposed to be on again. i would recommend watching it. It covers some of the
political situation and explains more
of what/why the somalis did what they did (like UN  helicopters killing
50+
people a week before at a meeting of people supposedly trying to get Addid to
be less warlike). It does not cover many of the command decisions, or lack
there of. I really think it compliments the movie.

I too was surprised by the rangers shock at death in combat, even in the
interviews with the former soldiers, i was surprised that some still seemed
shocked by death of comrades. I am only a few chapters in thebook and i think
the book does a good job of explaining how they thought they were
'invincible'. Also, the show mentions how the rangers looked up to the Delta
troops and when one of them went down, the rangers took a morale hit.

One more thing, at the end of the show the showed a female somolian community
leader and she said how after the us troops left the food and aid stopped. And
they ended it there. i really wanted to know if she was surprised by that.
What did she and other somolians (not the warlords obviously) think would
happen.