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2007-03-08 Africa Horn

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-03-08 12:52|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Nah, it's really the new Vietnam!

Posted by Bobby 2007-03-08 16:39|| 2007-03-08 16:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Certainly easier to deal with than Afghanistan. Ethiopia's got coastline and non-nuclear neighbors.

Heck, all we'd have to do is drop in a boat load of Qat and wait the proper ammount of time to walk in and take the place.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-03-08 18:05|| 2007-03-08 18:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Ethiopia is also heavily Christian and Jewish. They should be a critical ally in this region.

Posted by remoteman 2007-03-08 19:17|| 2007-03-08 19:17|| Front Page Top

#4 And the article says almost nothing about Ethiopia. Plenty about Somalia and Eritrea, but not much at all about Ethiopia. Funny that...

Posted by remoteman 2007-03-08 19:20|| 2007-03-08 19:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Actually, Ethiopia has NO coastline anymore : lost that when Eritrea split off. The Ethiopians now use the ports in Djibouti and Somaliland for their needs, and have been invested in the rail line that runs from Djibouti to Addis Ababa for the past couple of years.
The Jewish population in Ethiopia is almost nil today, the Israelis pulled out the Falashas during Operations Moses and Joshua.
Also, asking if Ethiopia is the "new Afghanistan" because it has problem neighbors contains the same internal logic defect as asking if Turkey is the "new Afghanistan" because it has problem neighbors : both countries are regional military powers and in Ethiopia's case anyway, its military has demonstrated that power in recent operations in one of its neighbors.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-03-08 22:16|| 2007-03-08 22:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Well Ethiopa did help dethrone the Islamic Courts

Posted by Flolumble Elmuling1667 2007-03-08 23:10|| 2007-03-08 23:10|| Front Page Top

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