ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/03/opinion/edelmi.php |
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Getting Ethiopia out of Somalia
By Afyare Abdi Elmi The Boston GlobePublished: May 3, 2007
The UN's humanitarian affairs office in Somalia reports that the recent clashes between Ethiopian troops and Somali resistance groups have killed more than 1,000 civilians and displaced more than 350,000 Mogadishu residents. The European Union, which is investigating whether war crimes were committed, argues that civilian areas were intentionally targeted. |
So let's add war crimes by the so called "government" against it's people. Good way to establish a government. The author then goes on to rightly say.... (and against all those who cried on this board that it was legitimate to "attack" the Islamists because they were so terrible.)
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| The United States, however, is on a different page. When the Union of Islamic Courts defeated the U.S.-backed warlords, the Bush administration - using the war on terrorism as justification - supported the Ethiopian occupation, arguing that the Islamists were an emerging threat to U.S. interests. But approaching the complex conflict in this simplistic way and linking it to the war on terror was a mistake. The United States has inadvertently stepped into a local, tribal and regional quagmire. |
The U.S. should step forward and stop supporting regimes such as Ethiopia which supports N.K. and also those who don't have the legitimate will of the people in hand....
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