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2006-11-12 Africa Horn

Heavy Fighting Erupts in Central Somalia

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Posted by Steve White 2006-11-12 10:25|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The Islamofascists are receiving huge Arab support while the fledgling government of Somalia and that of Ethiopia are without known resources. This fact has to sink in: any Islamofascist government will serve as a base for global Islamofascist terror. While Euros worry over Israel's security policies, the real enemy is on the march.

Posted by Sneaze Shaiting3550 2006-11-12 11:04|| 2006-11-12 11:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Ethiopia deserves aid.

Posted by closedanger@hotmail.com">closedanger@hotmail.com 2006-11-12 11:42|| 2006-11-12 11:42|| Front Page Top

#3 The Ethiopians now need some assurances that they won't be left high and dry on January 1.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2006-11-12 11:58|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2006-11-12 11:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Every country should be concerned about the US support after Jan.

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-11-12 12:27|| 2006-11-12 12:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Including the US, 49Pan, including the US.

Posted by RWV 2006-11-12 15:25|| 2006-11-12 15:25|| Front Page Top

#6 " Ethiopia deserves aid."

Perhaps Speaker of the House Nan could send over a pan of brownies.

Posted by Slomoter Whomble6501 2006-11-12 16:48|| 2006-11-12 16:48|| Front Page Top

#7 The US will not help anyone after Jan 1. Maybe even before. I think that election lost us the next round of battles in the WoT.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2006-11-12 18:00|| 2006-11-12 18:00|| Front Page Top

#8 The US will not help anyone after Jan 1. Maybe even before. I think that election lost us the next round of battles in the WoT.

You may be correct - but I'm not altogether certain that that would be a bad thing. It would certainly send a few wakeup calls around the world if the US simply were to say "Sorry, we're busy spending money on all our domestic issues and really can't be bothered with helping you out."

In the short-term, it would, of course, be disastrous and would have many longer-term implications - but it would also send a loud and clear signal to a great many parties about just how badly they need the US and our military presence and assistance around the world.

Of course, it would also engender a great deal of ill will towards us in the short and long-terms, but sometimes you have to slap a hysterical individual to get their attention (or use a baseball bat on a donkey to get its').

Honestly, at least half of our foreign aid probably needs to be cut off at the spigot anyway IMO.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2006-11-12 19:17|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2006-11-12 19:17|| Front Page Top

#9 Foreign aid, as most of us think of it, is nearly inconsequential when compared to the overall Federal budget. If you're talking about military aid, you're talking Israel, Iraq, Afghanistan and Free China. Everyone else qualifies as diddly squat. If you're talking about non-military, non-disaster aid, the amounst are staggeringly small. Oh, I wouldn't mind having it in my bank account, but you don't buy much influence with thirty million dollars in today's world.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2006-11-12 19:28|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2006-11-12 19:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Good point FOTs. Thought that myself. The Euro's sure would't be living with 6 weeks vac and 35 hr work weeks if they had to finance there own military's as much as they would need to without us.

Posted by plainslow 2006-11-12 19:52|| 2006-11-12 19:52|| Front Page Top

#11 Maybe so, Chuck, but I can't help but wonder how much weaponry that could buy a country like Ethiopia, or any other # of countries that are on the front lines against Arab jihadis in North/East Africa?

Posted by BA 2006-11-12 22:25|| 2006-11-12 22:25|| Front Page Top

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