 | The EU pretty much thinks that about everything we do, don't they? |
(SomaliNet) European Union experts say the United States is pushing to get a regional peacekeeping force deployed in Somalia and this could trigger a wider war in the Horn of Africa, European Commission sources said on Tuesday.
| I'm continually amazed at how the side of civilization doing something in response to something done by the enemies of civilization's always guaranteed to make things worse. |
The EU executive's department for African development has warned the bloc's governments that such a deployment could give cover for a larger military operation against the Islamists who control Mogadishu.
The stark warning given to envoys of the 25 EU states said a peacekeeping operation without the consent of all sides would be seen as an "invading force" and exacerbate the risk of conflict and of jihadist attacks, the sources said.
| Since at least one side in the conflict isn't ever going to consent to a 'peacekeeping' mission, what you're left with is either a) accept the Islamicists as the new boss or b) find a way to take them down. The Y'urp-peons are happy with option (a), which means option (b) is more likely correct. |
A U.N. Security Council committee is considering what action to take after receiving a report last week finding extensive illegal arms flows into Somalia, both to the Islamic Courts Union movement and to the shaky interim government.
| They'll call for more extensive study. This will eventually work its way, after multiple tiny steps, to a sternly-worded declaration. |
| But only after a number of years have gone by, allowing the bad guyz to consolidate their position and subvert all of the nations around them. |
Commission sources said U.S. officials had drafted a document calling for a partial lifting of the arms embargo and the deployment of a regional peacekeeping force.
| An arms embargo that effectively embargoes only one side in a conflict seem a bit... ummm... unfair. |
One EU official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said some member states shared Brussels' misgivings but Security Council permanent members Britain and France were reluctant to oppose Washington openly because of the "terrorism issue".
| Since at least a few eyeballs are opening in those countries on the issue. |
The United States has correctly accused the Islamic Courts, in the ascendancy in the lawless East African country, of harbouring al Qaeda operatives and warned that neighbouring Kenya and Ethiopia could be targets of "extremist elements" from Somalia. |