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Possible Change in US Policy on Somalia?
By Charlie
Over at the Tank, J. Peter Pham writes:
I argue that “among the many others which could be adduced, there are five compelling reasons for the United States to abandon the bankrupt, State Department-driven policy of preferring self-appointed ‘leaders’ of a failed construct [the so-called ‘Transitional Federal Government’ of Somalia] to an effective government of a real country,” Somaliland:
Pham points out some good reasons to drop our pretenses over the "state" of "Somalia" In Africa, the lines that are on maps are really notional, and the maps that we use continually misrepresent what the actual situation on the ground is. Anyone who is familiar with the battle of Mogadishu, and the circumstances leading up to it, understands that the entity we have called Somalia really never existed. Resetting our policy to reflect who is actually in charge, and what that area looks like, makes sense.
Again, AFRICOM has a big job to do, and the first may be to draft a map of what Africa really looks like.
Joke below the fold.
Negotiations continue amongst Somali Leaders
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Somaliland deserves our recognition as a functioning state and backing far more than "Somalia". It is about time that more people are starting to come to that conclusion.
I've quoted you and linked to you here: http://consul-at-arms.blogspot.com/2007/12/re-possible-change-in-us-policy-on.html
mr. so called J. Petter!!! do not break the rest. Somalian people will never ever except division of their country. i do not know if you are somali or not but after you started you hiden agenda of recognition of so called "Somaliland country" which is not exist as a country, but as one state of somalia, there are more fight and more people are fallen like flies. The war that you are advocating has already started and you are not gone solve it. I admonishing you to be carefull you agenda that has created a war now, where it was peaceful before.
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