Why has the U.S. "given the warlords money and intelligence help to rein in 'creeping Talibanization' in Somalia, while doing nothing about creeping Talibanization in Iraq or Afghanistan?
"Islamists seize Mogadishu from warlords," from AFP, with thanks to JE:
Somali Islamists have declared victory over a US-backed warlord alliance and are preparing to take over the capital, Mogadishu.Having captured nearly all of Mogadishu and a key warlord supply line on its northern outskirts at the weekend, the Islamists are formalising their seizure in a surrender and handover meeting with remnants of the alliance.
In a statement read over local radio stations, the chairman of the city's Joint Islamic Courts (JIC), Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, said 15 years of warlord control of Mogadishu was over and urged residents to accept the new leadership.
"The Joint Islamic Courts are not interested in a continuation of hostilities and will fully implement peace and security after the change has been made by the victory of the people with the support of Allah," he said....
The courts, which have repeatedly denied the charges, had declared a holy war against the ARCPT and denounced its funding by the United States, which clerics assailed as an "enemy of Islam."
The US neither publicly confirmed nor denied Washington's support for the alliance but US officials say they have given the warlords money and intelligence help to rein in "creeping Talibanization" in Somalia.
The U.S. government has also given thousands of Somalis free rides to the States so the men can situate themselves as cab drivers and underground garage managers in Washington DC and demand special prayer rooms at the airport. The women can have all of their medical needs taken care of, free to them of course, while they demand that they be given special hospital gowns and demand that American men be forbidden from visiting their female relatives in the bed next to the Somali women. Is there no end to the generosity and stupidity of the US State Department?
"The Joint Islamic Courts are not interested in a continuation of hostilities and will fully implement peace and security after the change has been made by the victory of the people with the support of Allah," he said....
In other words,"let the slaughter begin."
The world is letting Somalia go to hell. Like it once let afghanistan go to hell. But there is little threat from Somalia muslims to the world. And the present sources of islamic threats are too numerous and too active in nature to ignore. But, surely, the world can do something to prevent the wholesale slaughter of innocents at the hands of islamists ? Could not there be just aerial raids ? I wonder.
Why,oh why would anyone with a few grains of commonsense give money to any warring Islamist faction in Hellhole of Mogadishu?
U.S Foreign Policy leaves me GOBSMACKED!Guess it has same effect on many of its own citizens. Would tartly remind those who dismiss History as a Bore that Britain lost its empire at end of WW11 being in hock to America. Every EMPIRE has its day and Superpower U.S is presently haemorrhaging on several fronts whilst every day the Great Dragon of China and other countries grow stronger.
An islamist Somalia would be almost good for us, if there is a good control in immigration. But without this control, it´s suicidal.
Clerics assail US as "enemy of Islam". Dear God, how I wish and pray that were true. Instead we act more like the stooge of Islam; in Kosovo, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Dearborn, Michigan, public school "tolerance" programs, and on our non-enforced borders. If only we would realistically assess Islam, stop with this "religion of peace" nonsense, define the enemy, call it by name and FIGHT IT WITH ALL OUR STRENGTH, COURAGE AND CUNNING.
Political correctness is eating away at American common sense and will like bone cancer.