It was followed, at the end of 1992, by the invasion of Somalia. Code-named ‘Operation Restore Hope’, this road-tested a strategy called ‘humanitarian intervention’, which was designed to replace the ‘war on drugs’. When US Marines came ashore in Somalia ‘to feed the starving’, Time published a two-page colour photograph showing Somali children reaching out to a US Marine for ‘the gift of hope’.48 This was fake; the famine was by then well over.
