U.S. Does Not Plan To Send Troops Against al-Qaida in Somalia-

usinfo ^ | 15 December 2006 | By Vince Crawley

[HelloooClareece]

Somalia and Darfur are smelling more and more like a trap to me. Glad to see we aren't going in.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I really don't have a problem with letting the UN deal with these conflicts, while the USA concentrates on areas that affect global economics. Frankly, staking a position in a 2,000 year old fued is barely more than I can take.

[Samurai_Jack]

Sorry the American Military is not for RENT or LEASE, nor command by a foreign interest.

[I see my hands]

What's going on? If Somalia is an al-Qaida state we take Somalia out. It's not a matter of courts or Islamic law or plans or strategy. Does anyone remember 9-11?

Holy crap, It's every man for himself now.

[Cindy]

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[ImAmericanFirst]

I really don't have a problem with letting the UN deal with these conflicts

I really didnt have a problem letting the UN deal with Saddam either. But we all knew the result. Failure like anything the UN deals with.

We are suppose to go after Al Qaeda in this post 911 era

[KantianBurke]

Even to take down Al Qaida? Provided no idiotic naiton building of cesspools was involved, shouldn't going into the Horn of Africa to take down terror networks be a legitimate goal?

[airborne]

I've begun stockpiling MRE's and other survival gear.

It's just a matter of time.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

We can't nor should not police every conflict on the planet.

[word_warrior_bob]

So we've become so impotent that there are "acceptable" places for Al Quaida to control?

So much for the "Global War On Terror"

[ImAmericanFirst]

We can't nor should not police every conflict on the planet.

I agree. Unless the definition of a conflict is "Al Qaeda'a replacement for Afghanistan"

[ricardobaltazar]

Like you said, it's about strategy.

How is it strategic to fight this war on yet another front?

[blam]

"“The problem is that the CIC is led by extreme radicals right now, not the moderates that we all hoped would emerge,” Frazer said. One leading group within the courts, the al-Shaaba, “are radical youth killers,” Frazer said. “That’s what they are. They’re killing nuns, they’ve killed children and they’re calling for jihad.”"

The Somalia's must be so happy that pure Islam has finally arrived.

[ImAmericanFirst]

How is it strategic to fight this war on yet another front?

I suppose we could have asked that same question about Afghanistan in the late 90s

[Flavius]

proxy wars

[blam]

Al-Qa'eda In Charge Of Mogadishu, Says US

[Arkinsaw]

Don't worry, the conflict will be in Europe, and then here before long. We won't have to search the planet for it.

[Flavius]

yes i know ive been tracking this over a month

[Arkinsaw]

When Al-Qaeda takes over a government, then any press conference gets a JDAM. Every meeting of its Islamic Court gets a JDAM. When it sends a representative to the UN it goes to Guantanamo. When its officials try to fly overseas it gets intercepted in the air and escorted to a US airbase in Italy again.

They are Al-Qaeda. We may not be able to go in and get them, but they should at the very least have to run scared from cell phones and conduct government meetings only in basements and caves.