Somalia Update
Heavy fighting has been ravaging the capital for three straight days now, and the Somali Prime Minister has been turfed.
Somalia's transitional Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Ghedi has resigned.
Mr Ghedi told MPs of his decision after handing a note to President Abdullahi Ahmed Yusuf.
Mr Ghedi had been blamed for failing to quell the Islamist insurgency in Somalia and for bringing Ethiopian troops onto Somali soil.
The Ethiopian troops are fast making themselves new friends,
On Sunday, thousands fled the capital, Mogadishu, after Ethiopian troops opened fire on protestors.
And to think that there were people telling us just how much we could learn from the Ethiopians and their brilliant tactics. It was easy to tell they didn't have a clue then, and now that the real lessons are coming home, they won't be listening. Still, it's worth revisiting what they should be learning about counterinsurgency from the Ethiopians, (if they were still paying attention).
Interestingly enough, despite Ethiopia's penchant for unrestrained brutality and disregard for international norms, as well as relatively inattentive media coverage, it appears that an insurgency is taking root and thriving regardless. To such a degree that Ethiopian forces are heading for the exits and the current Somali government can barely take up residence in the nation's capital.
Why, it's almost as if insurgencies can get by without the aid and comfort of American leftists, humanitarian groups, the UN and the treasonous Western media. One might even conclude that, at times, insurgents have goals and motivations that provide their own animating impetus - not derived solely from the domestic political situation in the occupier's home country. Imagine the implications.
Perhaps we could extrapolate that Iraqi insurgents would be fighting on regardless of whether or not Jamil Hussein is a real person, or whether or not six Sunnis were set on fire that one time?
