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2005-03-13 Africa: Horn

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-03-13 3:05:49 AM|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'm sure somewhere there's somebody who cares what happens in / to Somalia. Not here. Not me. Somalis embrace and practice the same exact "social system" of their most distance ancestors. Thus they render themselves perfectly irrelevant. Stew forever. Same to every other throwback "society". No one can save you from yourselves, except you. Don't call us, we'll call you.

Posted by .com 2005-03-13 6:12:09 AM|| 2005-03-13 6:12:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Some places are so inherently fucked up that only raw Darwinism seems to be their salvation--their moon-god will sort them out. And yet, they can produce people like Hirsi Ali. Despite.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-03-13 6:17:26 AM|| 2005-03-13 6:17:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm sure somewhere there's somebody who cares what happens in / to Somalia.

Pity if the entire Horn of Africa broke off next time those zany chaps at Haliburton fired up the EarthQuake Machine(tm).

Posted by SteveS 2005-03-13 7:08:02 PM|| 2005-03-13 7:08:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 The problem is that these failed states are where Al Quaeda, et al make themselves at home. So even in the medium run we may have to intervene just to keep that from happening, a la Afghanistan. But not until after Syria and Iran have been taken care of. Our Special Forces guys have enough on their plates at the moment, and my neighbor's eldest has to graduate from Annapolis and get trained up as a SEAL before he will be useful for such activities.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-13 7:16:23 PM|| 2005-03-13 7:16:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 We would not intervene a la Afghanistan. We should simply kill the people we want to kill, regardless of collateral damage. Make them wish Sherman had conducted a Thirty Years War there.

Then Somalia should be left a cesspool to recover on its own if it can but without our help.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-13 7:25:21 PM|| 2005-03-13 7:25:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 We're already running special ops in the Horn, from what I've read. tw is right - it would be folly to ignore al-Q and their ilk's metastasis into these countries.

Posted by too true 2005-03-13 7:34:05 PM|| 2005-03-13 7:34:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Add estrogen to their water and wait a few years.. Accelerated Darwin.

Posted by 3dc 2005-03-13 11:57:13 PM|| 2005-03-13 11:57:13 PM|| Front Page Top

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