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January 10, 2007
Somalia & MENA: Compounding Errors & Bad Optics
I was working on an Aqoul main post on the Somali situ - speculative - and am finding that events are overtaking me. Whenever I have the smallest hope the US will not make some profoundly idiotic engagement, wasting resources and money on pointless muscle flexing (I am not, I may add, against muscle flexing as such, not being a pacifist at all, just against idiocy), the US goes a step further.
Air strikes against villages, where perhaps there may be al Qaeda people.
Well, great optics that. More of the callous imperial monster blowing up women and children in its heartless oppression of good Muslims optic.
If the payoff were real, it might be worth it, but I am have no doubt the payoff is not there, the al Qaeda leadership (taking for a moment the proposition, however dubious, was correct) will be easily replaced, and the sheer bloodyness and apparent callousness will actually generate more support for the very thing the US has interest in diminishing.
Bloody experts in own goals, the US.
Posted by The Lounsbury at January 10, 2007 10:29 AM
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More wonderful PR for the US in Africa, to go along with the rushed for PR purposes Dar Fur peace plan with only one rebel group that has made things even worse and the simpleton foreign aid obsession with the appearances of democracy and prequisite double standards for oil and counterterror purposes.
We're still waiting for the inevitable bloody Somali rebellion against Ethiopian forces.....
Posted by: Eddie at January 11, 2007 03:31 AM
