Monday, May 19, 2008

I've said this before

but there are times I really hate being right.

Far from being defeated, Somalia's opposition groups are politically uniting, strengthening and planning a conference next month to hone their strategy for ousting the Somali government and the Ethiopian troops backing it, according to a recent statement issued by the groups and to a foreign diplomat in the Somali capital.

. . .

"Things are getting worse instead of better," the official said, stating what is perhaps obvious to families who have lost relatives to the insurgents' bombs and Ethiopian attacks.

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In a pattern that analysts have compared to Iraq on a small scale, Ethiopia's incursion was followed by an insurgency


Gee, who would have guessed? I mean besides anyone who bothered to do a bare minimum of research into the situation. After all, if I could see this coming, it shouldn't have been too hard for anyone else.