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2021-12-13 Africa Horn

America’s imperial hubris threatens to push Somalia towards a catastrophe

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Posted by Fred 2021-12-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Somalia's been a catastrophe for as long as I can remember.

Posted by Glenmore 2021-12-13 01:28|| 2021-12-13 01:28|| Front Page Top

#2 OH, I like that word hubris. Day to day used limited unless you wish to become part of a Greek tragedy. Reminds me of so many in this current administration.

Posted by Dale 2021-12-13 03:58|| 2021-12-13 03:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Civil society and clan elders have also joined a chorus of condemnation of a process now widely seen as rigged.

There as well as here? Let them sort it out under the rubric of 'Afrikan solutions for Afrikan problems.' Have we learned nothing from countless attempts to assist economies and bring civilized governance to the continent? Stay out of it.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-12-13 06:25|| 2021-12-13 06:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Let em starve killing each other, and no more Brother-f*&king immigrants

Posted by Frank G 2021-12-13 08:40|| 2021-12-13 08:40|| Front Page Top

#5 So, they dragged the bodies of our dead soldiers through the streets of Mogadishu and now we're being mean to them. Funny, that.

Posted by Matt 2021-12-13 09:45|| 2021-12-13 09:45|| Front Page Top

#6 International Contracting
Working in Somalia

Four American bodies dragged through streets

Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-13 10:05|| 2021-12-13 10:05|| Front Page Top

#7 [not safe for weak hearted viewers]

Thinking this behavior can be changed is hubris

Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-13 10:08|| 2021-12-13 10:08|| Front Page Top

#8 /\ Changed? No, but it can be imported and dismissed as normative.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-12-13 11:24|| 2021-12-13 11:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Weren't they an Italian colony at some point? Let them deal with it. If not them, let the Muslim world take some responsibility.

Posted by ruprecht 2021-12-13 11:34|| 2021-12-13 11:34|| Front Page Top

#10 threatens to push Somalia toward a catastrophe

Somalia IS a catastrophe and always has been.

How bout we redirect our special forces from East Africa to Del Rio, Texas and fix the real catastrophe on our southern border?

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-13 11:42|| 2021-12-13 11:42|| Front Page Top

#11 You people don't understand. There are careers on the line at the State Department. If they stopped interfering they wouldn't be able to make their annual presentations for promotion. And THAT outcome must be avoided at all costs.

Posted by Clulet Splat5443 2021-12-13 14:15|| 2021-12-13 14:15|| Front Page Top

#12 The Solution
Rand Paul offers to buy Ilhan Omar a plane ticket back to Somalia…

Posted by Grinetch Snaith4103 2021-12-13 18:28|| 2021-12-13 18:28|| Front Page Top

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