Somalia Redux - Another Black Hawk Down?

• LazerLordz

  13 Nov 07, 00:27

  UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has warned of a growing humanitarian crisis in Somalia.
  
  "Overall, 1.5m people are in need of humanitarian assistance, a 50% increase since the beginning of the year," he said on Friday.
  
  Earlier, he said a UN force would not be viable and that other options should be considered, including a multi-national force or what he calls a "coalition of the willing".
  
  The African Union did agree to send 8,000 peacekeepers to Somalia this year but only 1,600 Ugandan troops have actually made it.
  
  

  Coalition of the willing? Yeah sure..how's he going to get this off the ground and into the ears of the P5.
• Arapahoe

  13 Nov 07, 04:52

  that is really the result of premature pull out by Bill who does not want any commitment. As a result you find that the world have to revisit this place again.
  
  i am sure Al Qaeda is waiting in Somalia.
• the Bear

  13 Nov 07, 08:13

  they send 8,000 (on paper) without proper equipment and vehicles.. only 1,600 turn up with even less equipment..
  
  and they want to police Somalia??
  
  in a country where they pride themselves and identify themselves with this saying:
  
  I and Somalia against the world.
  I and my clan against Somalia.
  I and my family against the clan.
  I and my brother against the family.
  I against my brother.
  
  do they even dare to start to imagine that 8,000 (much less 1,600) is enough to even stop a skirmish?
  
  they should just evacuate the civilians, set a hugeass boundary, and let the warring factions kill each other in it...