So after all this fussin' and feudin', the former chairman of the Islamic Courts Union is elected president of Somalia's "official" transition government anyway. Of all the Bush administration's criminal acts of idiocy, trying to organize a bunch of warlords into some sort of puppet state and supporting the subsequent Ethiopian invasion of Somalia really stands out - in our long history of trying to control outcomes in the Horn of Africa - as a case study in the futility of the neocolonial enterprise, if nothing else just for the short timeframe in which the latest effort collapsed.
Eventually you just fuck a place up so bad that it becomes unfuckable.
:: posted by buermann @ 2009-01-31 09:44:41 CST |
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