Somalia was a good intention that simply turned out wrong due to unforeseen circumstances.
I agree that it would have been better off not having started in the first place but only if the turnout had also been known in advance.
There are many reasons why intervention in Haiti was a valid cause and why not intervening in Cote d'Ivoire was not a valid one, and hypocrisy has nothing to do with either. All the blathering that sirs can muster cannot make Haiti an African country.
Bin Laden would not have changed one thing as a result of this. It was a propaganda coup for him, perhaps, but it did not advance his actual cause by any significant amount.