Televised images of dead soldiers dragged through Mogadishu forced US withdrawal.
Evidence
The American public had in any case had enough and, horrified by the grisly television pictures of dead U.S. personnel being dragged ignominiously through the streets of Mogadishu, vociferously clamoured for immediate withdrawal from an African misadventure that was becoming alarmingly reminiscent of Vietnam. So ‘Aideed cheekily cocked a snook at the might of the United States, further adding to his inflated if short-lived reputation as an African hero. ‘Aideed had had, as the saying goes, a good war: the same could not be said for Admiral Howe, who was evidently quite at sea in Somalia. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 638
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: A handful of military losses could lose a war through public opinion after Mogadishu. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 432