Mogadishu Deja Vu

This is surely one of the ugliest incidents involving American citizens that I can ever remember. And it certainly does beg the question -- why are we there? In an entire city not a single individual came to the aid of Americans -- not one. Is this the thanks we get for sending our young men and women to die there? Ostensibly to secure 'democracy' for these people? These people who behave like crazed murderous beasts?