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palsgraf_polka) wrote2009-09-15 02:29 pm
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Obama...I swear you're killing me here.
We invaded (ok Lorri) ran a military operation in Somalia!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/15/somalia-al-qaida-revenge-vow
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/15/somalia-al-qaida-revenge-vow
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The Somali govt seems pleased:
Ahlu Sunna Waljamaca, a Somali militia that has been fighting al-Shabab and is allied with the UN-backed government of Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, praised the US raid.
"We are very pleased with the helicopters that killed the foreign al-Shabab fighters," a spokesman, Sheikh Abdullahi Sheikh Abu Yussuf, told Reuters. "God sent birds against those who attacked the holy mosque, the Ka'ba, millennia ago. The same way, God has sent bombers against al-Shabab. We hope more aircraft will destroy the rest of al-Shabab, who have abused Islam and massacred Somalis."
Emphasis mine.
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Do we ever learn from our mistakes?
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Vietnam was 30 years and 58,000 dead US soldiers ago.
So no, it appears we do not.