And just because that "say something funny line" pissed me off, I looked stuff up:
A bloody coup in Grenada, along with a perceived threat to American students on the island provided the U.S. with an excellent excuse to eliminate a Marxist regime allied to Fidel Castro's Cuba. We hate Cuba, due to losing economic interests with Castro’s coup, so we took out someone who would befriend the Cubans.
And apparently, I was surprised as hell by this, there is oil in Somalia:
http://www.somaliawatch.org/archivejuly/000922601.htm
As far as Bosnia though, I can’t find anything concrete enough. We might have actually done that one out of niceness. The only "alternate" reasons I’ve seen so far was we either did it to keep chaos in the Balkans (evidently it’s easier to be a world power when things aren’t organized there) or because we said we would intervene and didn’t want to lose face.
And for my sarcastic remark, 50 stars look better on the flag.