Gather up every Somali who moved to the USA over the last 20 years and send them back.
Having seen it first hand, perhaps they can explain to the folks in Somalia what civilization is.
Just what is the US interest in that area?
Let Somalia sink or swim on its own. No more Somalia wars or Somalia immigrants/”refugees” to degrade our culture. Let them go to Saudi Arabia!
drain Gen. Thomas Waldhause from the swamp please
Not NO, but HELL NO! Stop channeling John McCain!!
I think it’s important to wait for Secretary Mattis’ official determination on whether or not the situation in Somalia “defames Islam”.
On 9 Dec 1992 as a young Sgt I landed in Mogadishu with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard a CH-46. Somalia was a shiitehole then and unfortunately will remain a shiitehole. My time there opened my eyes to the fact that some people have no regard for human life and there is nothing you can do to change that fact. Let them sort this crap out on their own. We can manage the spillover when needed.
I don’t want to ‘deal’ with anyone in North Africa ... we should wish them well and get the hell out. These people ARE NOT children - if we stop ‘saving’ them from their own horrible choices maybe they’ll start making better choices.
How about no?
More involvement in Africa means more jobs for careerists. None of it has anything to do with our strategic interests.
Not just no. But HELL NO.
We might as well just move every last Somali here and call it good.
Yeah, let’s go set up a “government” in a Muslim country where people’s first loyalty is to there tribe, and has been for thousands of years. Then we can train their military made up of said tribesmen for 20 years or so. And when that fails we can say they just need “more training”. Sound familiar?
Specifically, Marine Gen. Thomas Waldhauser was looking for “a little bit more flexibility” to “process targets in a m
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Screw it. Let the Africans deal with Africa. Let the Euros deal with their hemisphere.