http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6230489.stm
One of the most common modes of discourse for the left wing in the rich west is to constantly find people in the poor, disorganised, backward countries to echo their arguments. I don't know what the psychology of that is, but it is rather pitiful.
'Bloggers fear Somali insurgency'
'Members of the international blogging community have given their reaction to the role of Ethiopian troops in Somalia where Islamic militias have been defeated'
'The Head Heeb summed up everyone's doom-laden thoughts in his post "Somalia: the third phase":
"On balance, I'd still rate the most likely outcome as a sham Ethiopian withdrawal followed by an extended counterinsurgent conflict, with the TFG remaining ineffectual and internally divided while the Islamist militias wage a guerrilla struggle with substantial public support... Somalia deserves better, but there are too many forces converging toward the opposite to provide much room for optimism."'
If you replace the 'rate' in the above paragraph with 'hope', then that would be the exact replica of the views of most left-wingers in America and Britain. For some reason, decisive wars that change societies for the better are much less popular than nasty, bitter festering ones where everybody loses. How many lefty protest parades have there been over the last eighteen years against the internicine combat between the militias in Somalia? Thats right, zero. But now that Ethiopia has trashed the UIC and plonked numerous brigades in various strategic points around Somalia, there is hope that a real, settled country can emerge. And the reaction of the left? Doom, gloom, predictions of great catastrophes. What a bunch of morons.
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