re: #610 Summer

Oh and I’d like to say another thing, which is kind of important to say:

I’m pretty sure that all of us here loathe Al Jazeera for many darn good reasons (and believe me, they are very good reasons indeed and I loathe them as well), but they’re some of the only journalists who are getting fairly decent reports out of Somalia right now.

My guess is that their local terrorist connections are really just that good. Unfortunately, there are few other organizations in Somalia today that are as reliable for information. That place is such a hell hole that it makes Somalia from the 1990’s look like Club Med at this point.

In essence, Somalia is now another Taliban Afghanistan in the making. Nearly two decades of the most brutal civil war, gangs, Islamists, drug lords, non-intervention interventions, failed interventions, and clan warfare have just made that place a living hell on earth.

This is what happens when we abandon a country in need without a government. The UN Sponsored government is a fucking joke and now says that it accepts Shari’a simply to try to negotiate with the Islamists. And, like Afghanistan, you can’t really bomb them back into the stone age because they are already there since nearly twenty years.

Lotta people making a lotta cash supplying all the warring factions throughout Africa with arms. It’s in their best interest to have war go on. Period.