Thursday, October 2, 2008

What I Learned From A Somali Warlord


From the Danger Room (Wired News):

If a little law and order on land is the only real solution to Somalia's piracy problem, what would it look like?

Nothing like our own orderly, lawful society, that's for sure. For 17 years since Somalia's bloody civil war, the only real security in that country has been provided by local strongmen with armies of young thugs. In a word, warlords.

These days the U.S. government tends to lump warlords in with terrorists, ideologically motivated insurgents and other extremists. But warlording is just a means. The ends for various warlords are as diverse as the men themselves. In other words, there are good ones and bad ones.

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My Comment: There are no good options here. They all stink.

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