In Operation Restore Hope, the American government claimed to be sending in the marines with a humanitarian mission. But was there more to the story? What colonial history, military buildup and economic interests were behind a good-will invasion into this “scary Mad Max world,” as dubbed by the U.S. media cheer-leaders? Was Somalia a “hungry but grateful nation?” Find out with Asha Samad, Ali Hussein of SAFRAD and Clayton Ramey of the War Resisters League.