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2005-09-19 Africa: Horn

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-09-19 00:57|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I feel like I should care....

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2005-09-19 03:05|| 2005-09-19 03:05|| Front Page Top

#2 "I alert the world community to brace itself for another catastrophic humanitarian situation and a flood of refugees."

I'm through caring. Go cry to the Europeans.

Posted by JerseyMike 2005-09-19 07:57|| 2005-09-19 07:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Hmmmmmmm...civil war in Somalia? Sounds serious...

Posted by tu3031 2005-09-19 08:33|| 2005-09-19 08:33|| Front Page Top

#4 I have run out of care. The care well has run dry.The dog ate my care....
(To quote the great James Lileks)

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2005-09-19 08:40|| www.sgtstryker.com]">[www.sgtstryker.com] 2005-09-19 08:40|| Front Page Top

#5 How will they know when it's started?

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-09-19 08:43|| 2005-09-19 08:43|| Front Page Top

#6 humanitarian suffering???

Posted by gromgoru 2005-09-19 08:56|| 2005-09-19 08:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Was has it been up until now? Maybe they'll succeed in killing each other off this time and we won't have to hear about them any more.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-09-19 09:22|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-09-19 09:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Nice ScrappleFace title!

Best solution here is to turn Somalia into a Theme Park for civil war; think EuroDisney for treachery, violence and armed thuggery. Maybe Somalia will get some of the adventure tourist trade. Jihadis and jihadee-wanna-bes get somewhere to play without annoying the rest of us. Ethiopia can be turned into a parking lot for the park, giving them something approaching a national economy. And the Somalis can continue to kill each other. It's a win-win situation for all!

Posted by SteveS 2005-09-19 10:38|| 2005-09-19 10:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Civil war in a location of total anarchy? Jeeze Louise. If it were true, then it would a step up from total anarchy. This might be good news. [/sarcasm]

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-09-19 11:12|| 2005-09-19 11:12|| Front Page Top

#10 foreign powers will find it hard to remain aloof if warlords start settling their disputes through armed force, Somalis say.

The Somalis think too highly of themselves.

Posted by Pappy 2005-09-19 11:19|| 2005-09-19 11:19|| Front Page Top

#11 ...foreign powers will find it hard to remain aloof if warlords start settling their disputes through armed force, Somalis say.

If that's a threat, it...ummmmmmmmmmmmm...ain't working.

Posted by tu3031 2005-09-19 11:43|| 2005-09-19 11:43|| Front Page Top

#12 My Give a Damn's busted

Posted by SuzyQ 2005-09-19 11:48|| 2005-09-19 11:48|| Front Page Top

#13 At least a civil war would bring some measure of organization and focus to the customary and usual daily random bloodletting.

Posted by MunkarKat 2005-09-19 12:01|| 2005-09-19 12:01|| Front Page Top

#14 So long as there's a plentiful qat supply, none of the participants will give a damned who they're shooting.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-09-19 13:14|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-09-19 13:14|| Front Page Top

#15 "It is incomprehensible that the international community is inattentively watching the two factions prepare for war," said Samatar

You.... want colonialism? Hey buddy: your nation, your problem. We Americans sure as hell didn't do this to you.

Posted by Secret Master 2005-09-19 14:44|| 2005-09-19 14:44|| Front Page Top

#16 Once there were two cats from Somalia (Kilkenny)
Who each thought there was one cat too many.

They fought and that fit,
They scratched and they bit,

Until except for their nails,
And the tips of their tails,

Instead of two cats,
There weren't any.

Posted by Ulomonter Uleack2228 2005-09-19 15:01|| 2005-09-19 15:01|| Front Page Top

#17 This f%%ckup is brought to courtesy of the United Nations.

Posted by phil_b 2005-09-19 17:19|| 2005-09-19 17:19|| Front Page Top

#18 Somehow this news fails to disquiet me.

Posted by Scott R">Scott R 2005-09-19 17:38|| http://five24.net]">[http://five24.net] 2005-09-19 17:38|| Front Page Top

#19 I have a serious question for a sec:

How much of this situation is being encouraged by foreign powers?

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-09-19 18:06|| 2005-09-19 18:06|| Front Page Top

#20 Per the CIA Factbook:

Resources: uranium and largely unexploited reserves of iron ore, tin, gypsum, bauxite, copper, salt, natural gas, likely oil reserves

Geographic note: strategic location on Horn of Africa along southern approaches to Bab el Mandeb and route through Red Sea and Suez Canal

Posted by trailing wife 2005-09-19 18:48|| 2005-09-19 18:48|| Front Page Top

#21 So there is some good stuff there, Phil, but mostly I think the boyz with gunz just like fighting -- typical old style bully-boys.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-09-19 18:50|| 2005-09-19 18:50|| Front Page Top

#22 Could be just the thing for that new MOAB/FAE test site that the military has been looking for.

Posted by remoteman 2005-09-19 19:46|| 2005-09-19 19:46|| Front Page Top

#23 Phil, How much of Uganda, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe were encouraged by foreign powers? Perhaps you could say that it was Africa's misfortune to be liberated during the cold war after which it became a board of pawns, but that only explains so much. I suspect that before I die we will have seen all of sub-saharan Africa descend to a level of barbarity unseen there since the 17th century. And no one anywhere will lift a finger.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-09-19 20:03|| 2005-09-19 20:03|| Front Page Top

#24 The problem is, Mrs. D, we've been lifting fingers. It's like pouring dye in the river -- the Blue Danube is still brown.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-09-19 22:20|| 2005-09-19 22:20|| Front Page Top

#25 The problem is, a tipping point of the population has to insist on being civilized; otherwise outside help just makes things worse. Look how many millenia it's taken Afghanistan and Iraq (and whoever planned to mention Babylon might remember it was successful as a conquering power, but not as an empire).

Posted by trailing wife 2005-09-19 22:25|| 2005-09-19 22:25|| Front Page Top

#26 Which is the long way round of saying that of course you are right, Mrs.D. I think I'm a bit younger than you, but I think your statement will hold to at least the 2nd or 3rd generation. :-(

Posted by trailing wife 2005-09-19 22:28|| 2005-09-19 22:28|| Front Page Top

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