Strawman argument? Do you dispute that VMI argued that the dissolution of the Somali government was a good thing and dismissed the cost of 1,000,000 lives?
I find no reference to the figure of 1,000,000 lives at all.
Where do you get that figure, and upon what basis to you attribute that loss to the lack of formal government? How many lives do you think it's cost countries like Zimbabwe to have the government they've got?