Somalia: US-exacerbated civil war in another nation
Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland
12/22/06
With Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and Palestine already in or sliding toward civil war, one can correctly label the Bush administration's foreign policy the most incompetent in recent memory. But the problem lies deeper than that. The hyperactive, and often counterproductive, U.S. foreign policy is a bipartisan problem, best illustrated by the sordid U.S. history in Somalia...
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1879
Somalia: US foreign policy and gangsterism
AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo
12/29/06
In our Orwellian age, no one is surprised when American foreign policy takes a U-turn, and, suddenly, we are at war with Eastasia -- because, you see, we have always been at war with Eastasia. Yet even the most jaded observers are bound to raise an eyebrow over our embrace of the Somalian warlords, whose disarmament and capture was our announced goal the last time we intervened. That failed effort, you’ll recall, was dubbed 'Operation Restore Hope.' Now we are back, albeit semi-covertly -- using Ethiopia, a major recipient of American arms and technical support, as our proxy -- in a new project that ought to be named Operation Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10238
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Somalia
by Ivan Eland
12/22/06
With Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and Palestine already in or sliding toward civil war, one can correctly label the Bush administration's foreign policy the most incompetent in recent memory. But the problem lies deeper than that. The hyperactive, and often counterproductive, U.S. foreign policy is a bipartisan problem, best illustrated by the sordid U.S. history in Somalia...
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1879
Somalia: US foreign policy and gangsterism
AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo
12/29/06
In our Orwellian age, no one is surprised when American foreign policy takes a U-turn, and, suddenly, we are at war with Eastasia -- because, you see, we have always been at war with Eastasia. Yet even the most jaded observers are bound to raise an eyebrow over our embrace of the Somalian warlords, whose disarmament and capture was our announced goal the last time we intervened. That failed effort, you’ll recall, was dubbed 'Operation Restore Hope.' Now we are back, albeit semi-covertly -- using Ethiopia, a major recipient of American arms and technical support, as our proxy -- in a new project that ought to be named Operation Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10238
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Somalia
rudkla - 26. Dez, 18:01
