Photograph: Henri Bureau/AFP
Posted on 07/18/2019 11:40:24 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
The story begins in 1950, when Italian Somaliland (southern Somalia) became a UN trust territory under Italian administration. Renamed Somalia six years later, the country was granted internal autonomy and subsequently held its first elections, won by the Somali Youth League. In July 1960, both British and Italian Somaliland were granted independence, uniting to form the independent Republic of Somalia. Aden Abdullah Osman Daar became the first president, but the new country's borders were not clearly defined, and there were border skirmishes and hostilities with Kenya and Ethiopia throughout the 1960s.
Somalian prime minister Abdurashid Ali Shermarke with the Somalian president Aden Abdullah Osman Daar. In 1967, the president was defeated in elections by his former prime minister.
On 15 October 1969, President Shermarke was assassinated by a member of his own police force. Mohamed Siad Barre, seized power in the subsequent coup, and in 1970 declared Somalia a socialist state, strengthening ties with the Soviet Union and subjecting the country to his ideology of 'scientific socialism' ...
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Photograph: Henri Bureau/AFP
Somali and Libya are the only two countries in the world which makes Italian colonial rule look competent by comparison to what they’ve had since.
Every time I see and hear that Muslim commie Ilhan Omar I say to myself “F.U. George H. W. Bush for getting us involved with that sh*t hole a few weeks before his sorry ass left the White House. We did not have any Somalians in my home city before that. Now they are all over the place around here.
“On the evening of 4 December 1992, U.S. President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation, informing them that U.S. troops would be sent to Somalia. The U.S. contribution would be known as Operation Restore Hope,”
THAT’S the history of Somalia. And as a going away gift, The first Bush dumbass sent troops into Mogadishu....because a former Soviet client state in a civil war is an -obvious- US interest.
Now we have half of Somalia in Minnesota and a Somali congressman. We had a Somali cop startled and shooting a woman.
We should have never gone there. Play with a turd, get poop on your fingers.
The septic tank of history and geography.
All down hill ?
It was George W.. Bush, preceded by Clinton, who did it. Oh, the wonders of bipartisanship.
I was in Somalia from December thru May in support of Operation Restore Hope. It was a $hithole when we got there and it is still a Shithole. Three clans/gangs were fighting for power and for the humanitarian aid coming into the ports. No wonder our raghead Congresscritter left there.
“.....THAT’S the history of Somalia. And as a going away gift, The first Bush dumbass sent troops into Mogadishu....because a former Soviet client state in a civil war is an -obvious- US interest. ....
I agree it was a dumb-ass thing to do.
However you have forgotten about the daily news broadcasts showing starving Somalians - particularly children. The constant drumbeat by the Congressional Black Caucus playing the race card - Bush & Republicans are racists ! Here’s proof! In those days Republicans would immolate themselves to avoid being called racist! Particularly when the media was turning it into a “Republicans-Are-Racists” feeding frenzy. Which they were doing! Bush panicked! Of course he was probably told if he didn’t do it he would cost the GOP seats in the Senate & the House. I think any Republican of that era would have done the same. Today the “Race Card” is max’ed out! In fact those who try it have reached a point where they are laughed at and look pathetically desperate. Also we have a President who when they try brings out his pictures and awards from Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton. Its a different political world today!
If you want to really get mad. Get mad at those responsible. Get mad at the NGOs (primarily Catholic & Lutheran charities) that dumped these illiterate probably khat-addicted goat herders in Minnesota with no supervision or guarantees as to whose responsible for their behavior. These NGOs made millions off this both from tax dollars and donations by well-meaning people. And don’t forget they are still active & still doing the same thing they did back then!
The truth is back when it happened if we had done nothing the warlord who was controlling the food distribution would have starved out his rivals and won Somalia. It would have been ugly! Not good TV for soccer moms! He likely would be controlling it today and it still would be a shit-hole.
Kenyans even think Somalians are sub-human! All we did was interfere in how stone age & near stone people fight wars.
What about all the poor goats. They didn’t mention anything about the poor goats.
I believe you are not lying :)
Total sh*thole. It is pathetic and ironic that countries that were once colony were much better off as a colony. American blood was never once worth shedding in former colonies.
She learned well.
Lousy artist; didn’t even get the appearance of an AK right. No hand grip and no gas cylinder above the barrel.
“Get mad at the NGOs (primarily Catholic & Lutheran charities) that dumped these illiterate...”
You nailed it right there. Those are the people/groups to blame - primarily the ELCA Lutherans.
“Kenyans even think Somalians are sub-human!”
I’ve heard this only anecdotally so I can’t say if it’s accurate or not - but supposedly even in Islam, Somalis are regarded as low IQ trailer trash, literally and figuratively.
They’re supposedly a step even below Palestinians, a group that the rest of Islam pays lip service to.
I know some Kenyans and they’re baffled how Somali got into the US Congress. Their implication is, “Don’t you have standards?”
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