Wednesday, March 24, 2004

Somalia and Iraq: Looking Back and Ahead

By Mickey Z.

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  1. This excellent essay should be read twice, and --following the second reading-- readers should look at John Pilger’s piece on “Universal Justice” which appeared yesterday on ZNet.  The focus should be taken off of Bush, and placed on...your neighbors, your colleagues, et. al.  We will change this disgusting momentum of ours through confrontation with the real “enemy”...which is --for one reason or another-- the American public which pays for(supports) or ignores invasions such as the one in Somalia.  Mickey’s done a great job in delineating our dilemma, our disgusting actions...under the pretense of humanitarian concern.  The challenge now is for readers to decide what, if anything, they’re going to do about it.  If the answer is to remove Bush...nothing will be done.  Sweet days for one and all, Oxie of the Oxen

    Posted by Richard Oxman from  on  03/24  at  11:51 AM

  2. Somalia’s resistance shows the weakness of american armies and forces. let them come again. this time we will be ready and clinton can come along too if he is man enough.!

    Posted by abdul from  on  03/24  at  04:41 PM

  3. somalia was the place to leave

    Posted by sadik from  on  03/24  at  06:33 PM

  4. Please read this article it is very interesting I am cetain that you will like it, let me knwo after you read!

    Posted by mohamed from  on  03/25  at  12:43 PM

  5. May I thank MickeyZ,for his recearch, for this true Story.
    Let me say one thing, when I heard that Americans where going to Somalia in 1992, I was so happy and I thought some thing is going to change, but what I saw on the TV was terrible. My massage to the American is Please finish the job that u start in Iraq, and don’t leave it like you did somalia.

    Thanks
    Mickey Z

    Posted by Ahmed Warsame (kuluc) from  on  03/25  at  04:07 PM

  6. I’d like to know what Ahmed was so happy about when he heard Americans were going to Somalia.  I’d like to know what he thought was going to change for the better with Americans going there for reasons that had zero to do with humanitarianism.  And I’d like to know what “job” he thinks needs to be finished in Iraq?  The completion of privatization of Iraq?  The complete eradication of the health of the Iraqi people?  Are there remaining historical treasures that we didn’t abscond with or destroy or take a cut of the proceeds from?  Are there additional international laws which we can violate if we stay longer...to make sure that there’s no question that they don’t apply to us?  Sincerely, The Ox

    Posted by Richard Oxman from  on  03/25  at  04:25 PM

  7. Mister Oxaman,

    If the US successfuly sucks the oil out of Iraq, at least we will have cheaper oil. I mean i live in the US and the price of Oil is insane. If Bush says he will attack another country for oil, than so be it. I want cheap oil.

    Posted by Peter J Fox from  on  03/25  at  08:35 PM

  8. Well written, even though it carries a political weight and I hate politics.  What happen in Somalia will never be forgotten by Somalis but I am sure Americans do forget like they did in the past.  Of course history teaches us cases of Vietnam, Korea, etc… And Somalia will not be the last since there are already two other countries behind it.  I am a strong believer of the Chinese old saying “A true factory is a factory without a war”.  So, it goes to American approach, they can get their interests without going to war and no bloodshed.  As in the case of Somalia, they can take advantage of Somali’s capitalistic business mindedness and get resources they have been talking about since I was a kid.

    My wishe goes to wise men/women of America that are away from political sickness and immune from the D & R parties.

    Abdulkadir (Somali origin)

    Posted by Abdulkadir from  on  04/03  at  12:31 AM
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