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2011-10-23 Africa Horn

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Posted by Fred 2011-10-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
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#1 Nobel Peace Prize.

Posted by gr(o)mgoru 2011-10-23 03:19|| 2011-10-23 03:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Yep, and War is Peace "Freedom is Slavery and Ignorance is Strength.

I read that someplace before; WaPo, NYTs? /sarc off

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-10-23 08:20|| 2011-10-23 08:20|| Front Page Top

#3 We have always been at war with Somalia.

Posted by Fred 2011-10-23 08:38|| 2011-10-23 08:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Navy ships fitted with heavy weapons are reported to have arrived in the Somalia territorial waters...

Whose navy? Does this mark the end of the piracy problem?

Posted by Skidmark 2011-10-23 10:42|| 2011-10-23 10:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Whose navy? Does this mark the end of the piracy problem?

Kenya's navy. And no, it doesn't end the piracy problem. That's to the north.

Posted by Pappy 2011-10-23 11:00|| 2011-10-23 11:00|| Front Page Top

#6 The pulps, whose covers are occasionally relevant here, reflect a time between the world wars where, in distant places, improbable things could be imagined without stretching anyone's credulity.
The only thing standing between a latter-day pulp writer and a couple of heavy-jawed American soldiers of fortune in this dust-up (who take time to run up to Somalia to rescue a cute blonde)is the fact that it's probably classified.
Come to think of it, who'd believe it if it were in a pulp? Remember "True" magazine? And "Stag"? Bring'em back, I say.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2011-10-23 11:14|| 2011-10-23 11:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Somalia became too big a threat to the vital Kenyan tourism industry and something had to be done.

Posted by Glenmore 2011-10-23 11:29|| 2011-10-23 11:29|| Front Page Top

#8 Glen, so Obama is just protecting his fatherland?

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2011-10-23 12:18|| 2011-10-23 12:18|| Front Page Top

#9 Nobel Peace Prize.

Reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw the other day: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize"

Posted by Gomez McCoy9859 2011-10-23 16:40|| 2011-10-23 16:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Oops, Gomez McCoy9859 was me (I?).

Posted by xbalanke 2011-10-23 16:41|| 2011-10-23 16:41|| Front Page Top

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