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What is up with Somalia?
Thursday, January 11, 2007
So, what the hell happened in Somalia? Some of you may have heard a bit on the news about the U.S. conducting air strikes in Somalia and thought "Uhh, did they mean Iraq?" I didn't know what the heck was going on either until I started listening to Crane Durham on Nothing But Truth tonight. Crane was talking with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, who is pretty much a genius and has a book coming out soon.
Here is what I gathered is going on. Somalia didn't have a real government for about 16 years and now they have a very young transitional government just getting started. A group called the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) is fighting their way across Somalia. They were trying to overtake the town where the government was holed up but underestimated what they were up against. The Ethiopian military had devoted a huge percentage of its forces to protecting the Somalian government and had enlisted the military expertise of the United States to help. The Ethiopians successfully fought off the ICU forces with some help from U.S. helicopters. The ICU is connected with Al Qaeda.
Apparently now there is a feud going on between the Pentagon and the U.S. State Department. Davved just dropped that one. The problem is that the Pentagon wants to give money to the transitional government to help defeat the ICU. The State Department wants to give the money to Somalia little by little to dictate how they will handle things. For some reason the State Department wants the Somalians to sit down and talk with the ICU, at least the ones who are still alive. Yeah, and while we are at it how about we sit down and talk with Iran. We should just have a big tea party with AhmadenaNUTJOB, Kim Don Small Dong, Fidel Castro.
Links
Daveed writing about this on January 9
Forget it. Here's what I got searching for Somalia on Pajamasmedia
Here is what I gathered is going on. Somalia didn't have a real government for about 16 years and now they have a very young transitional government just getting started. A group called the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) is fighting their way across Somalia. They were trying to overtake the town where the government was holed up but underestimated what they were up against. The Ethiopian military had devoted a huge percentage of its forces to protecting the Somalian government and had enlisted the military expertise of the United States to help. The Ethiopians successfully fought off the ICU forces with some help from U.S. helicopters. The ICU is connected with Al Qaeda.
Apparently now there is a feud going on between the Pentagon and the U.S. State Department. Davved just dropped that one. The problem is that the Pentagon wants to give money to the transitional government to help defeat the ICU. The State Department wants to give the money to Somalia little by little to dictate how they will handle things. For some reason the State Department wants the Somalians to sit down and talk with the ICU, at least the ones who are still alive. Yeah, and while we are at it how about we sit down and talk with Iran. We should just have a big tea party with AhmadenaNUTJOB, Kim Don Small Dong, Fidel Castro.
Links
Daveed writing about this on January 9
Forget it. Here's what I got searching for Somalia on Pajamasmedia
1 Comments:
Thanks for the plug for the show. You should call in sometimes as well.
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