I gather you've been following Head Heeb's discussion on the same? Rathre sad and obvious US fp equation: Islamists = bad, anything else = better.

No, I have not. I retain my primative habits of newspaper reading and rarely read the blogs.

Pity. I'm sure the crusty old codgers who refuse to read you say the same thing.

BTW, are you interested in trying Shelfari? (see left sidebar of my journal). Zenpundit challenged me to convince you.

Give it a look Col. I'm curious as to what is on yor bookshelf, at least in English at any rate.

Ahem, re your comment on social networking sites at my place: If you hadn't set up that ghastly little hovel on LJ, I'd have never found you.

America badly misread the situation earlier this year, with the CIA backing the warlords who lost to the ICU, doing a wonderful job of not understanding local realities on the ground or the forces at play. We don't "get" Somalia, and haven't since the late 70's w/ the Ogaden war. What happens if/when the Ethiopians overstay their welcome and antagonize the myriad of warlords and remaining ICU forces? Another fine proxy war in the spirit of the IDF/Hezbollah fiasco?

Eddie

Your last line captures me thinking precisely.

A blunder upcoming.

Opting for being duped by the faux-secular warlords, rather than dealing intelligently with the Islamist courts.

I'd rather moderate the honest devils, than support the bloody vampires.

Re that bizarre faddish library thing, I took a look. Too much bloody work, and I am profoundly uninterested in other people's libraries.

I shall retain, then, my dislike of the bidaa and keep to tradition, like the Salaf.

Forgive me but that last statement of yours was just too priceless to stay here, I had to use it for my post about this.

My contempt for and fear of what this bunch in power is capable of stooping to only grows in spades with this latest stupidity.

This Kos story shows in a similar vein how easy USA is to play with the al-Qaeda/Islamist card in hand. People using USA to settle scores by calling those they don't like al-Qaeda, and down come the bombs.

Maybe one should get in on that deal.