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2005-01-31 Africa: Horn

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-01-31 12:26:04 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Somalia falling into it's own cesspool by weight should cause no concern for the US! They're already in hell, just provide the handbasket!

Posted by smn 2005-01-31 12:36:55 AM|| 2005-01-31 12:36:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 So, the whole thing is America's fault. Good to know.

And if America was taking an active interest in Somalian reconstruction, you'd hear unconstructive criticism of the same from this very outlet, methinks.

Posted by gromky 2005-01-31 2:17:45 AM|| 2005-01-31 2:17:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 This paper, "The Daily Star", is headquartered in Beirut, Lebanon. That's about all we need to know. Just one more festering mess of a place whose own people have given up and allowed foreigners and radical Islam to crap in their nest.

Posted by Tom 2005-01-31 8:17:20 AM|| 2005-01-31 8:17:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Now there is a glowing example of the Democratic Party exit strategy. Peace, love, and warm puppies.

Posted by Elmomoting Grunter8338 2005-01-31 9:25:15 AM|| 2005-01-31 9:25:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 If we have to go in there again, just do everybody a favor, nuke the fuckin place and forget about it...

Posted by tu3031 2005-01-31 9:30:53 AM|| 2005-01-31 9:30:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm afraid I stopped caring about Somalis in general, after those pictures of a Somali mob dragging the dead bodies of American soldiers through the streets of Mogadishu were published. Seal the borders and let them slaughter each other, or starve, or whatever. As the great Lileks said (and I am approximating the quote by memory) "I am out of care. The care well is run dry. The dog ate my care..."

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2005-01-31 9:50:46 AM|| [http://www.sgtstryker.com] 2005-01-31 9:50:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Somalia is chaos.

Posted by Duke Nukem 2005-01-31 10:37:13 AM|| 2005-01-31 10:37:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 So what they are calling for is a recolonization program, like the post-WWI mandates given to Britain and France in the Middle East -- Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon...

At some point the peepul have to decide law and order cost less than all-against-all chaos. And until they are willing to pay the cost, nothing the US or anyone else does will fix it. My heart weeps to say it, but in the end kindness is more cruel: Surround the place with an Iron Curtain, and wait them out.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-01-31 11:03:43 AM|| 2005-01-31 11:03:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Not recolonisation, just lots of money, diplomats with endless tolerance, patience and enthusiasm for 'process', and perhaps a few technocrats to keep the fax machines running.

Oh, did I mention lots of money?

Posted by Pappy 2005-01-31 1:18:08 PM|| 2005-01-31 1:18:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Sorry, guys, we're kinda busy right now with another group of Muslims who actually want to have a functioning, democratic government.

When you stop chewing khat, put down the guns and grow up, maybe we'll care. But I doubt it.

Maybe some of those wonderful Islamic groups this author thinks exist would be able to assist you.

Have a nice day. (And I mean it in the sense a cop does when he gives you a speeding ticket.)

Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-01-31 2:09:20 PM|| [http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com/] 2005-01-31 2:09:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 It's not "Islam" per se that we have a problem with - it's the way some people interpret and apply Islam to terrorize, extort, kill, maim, murder, and destroy others that we have a problem with. If that's not "part of Islam", then get rid of it. IF, however, that is the part of Islam you intend to extend to us, you're going to have a problem - a BIG problem.

Posted by Old Patriot 2005-01-31 5:23:27 PM|| [http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2005-01-31 5:23:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 We all have our little foibles, and one of mine is that every now and then I work up a good grudge and won't let go of it. The Somalis mutilated our soldiers and dragged their bodies through the streets. Now they want some more of my tax dollars? Go screw.

Posted by Matt 2005-01-31 5:43:38 PM|| 2005-01-31 5:43:38 PM|| Front Page Top

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