Their true intentions are questionable, I've never seen so many people die on a peace keeping mission. If it was truly a peace keeping mission it should have never turned out the way it did. They wanted to get rid of Aidiid at the end of the day dude was too slick for them.
In the first Gulf war America was at war with Sadaam to begin with, next thing you know after the Shaia Militia where gainig power and nearly over threw Sadaam. He even moved to Jordan, my friends father who was in the Militia told me that American Helicopters came in and aided Sadaam to crush them (fuck what anyone heard this guy was present at the scene). Now if America wanted to defeat Sadaam why would they aid him? because hes a fucking puppet. Americas real intentions are never clear.