December 16, 2025
Gaslighted about Somali Refugees
By Sloan Oliver
Since this country’s founding, newly arrived immigrants wanted to become Americans, and did just that, conforming to our culture and values. Why is it that now, over the past several decades, we don’t expect the same conformity from our “adopted refugees?” How is it considered racist to expect newly arrived immigrants (legal or illegal) and refugees to become “Americanized”?
Early 1993, I deployed to Somalia to support Operation Restore Hope. If you saw the 2001 movie Black Hawk Down, the Mogadishu of 1993 was worse than portrayed in that movie. Somalia was never what one could call a “successful country.” However, by the time that President Bush sent U.S. troops in 1992-1993, it had collapsed into complete failure. To say Somalia was a typical third-world or regular failed country is an insult to “run-of-the-mill” failed countries. It was, and remains, the most impoverished, dysfunctional, undeveloped, backwards, failed (Throw in your own adjective.) country on the planet. Why is that?
Instead of answering why Somalia failed, in our lack of wisdom, we decided to bring the very people who failed and their failed ideology into our country. Even worse, we’ve told them. “Because things worked so splendidly back home, don’t bother assimilating.” Of all the stupid ideas this country has ever advanced, (and we’ve advanced many) bringing uneducated third-world refugees with no skills into this country, giving them endless government freebies, insisting they not assimilate, while encouraging them to remain faithful to their failed Islamic ideology and culture is perhaps our dumbest yet.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/12/gaslighted_about_somali_refugees.html
