You took the words right out of my mouth. Here we are bleeding for the Somalians while they are piroting ous ships and letting our charities feed their starving women and children. My question is, why have not the United States under NATO banner bombed the hell out of them, like they are doing in Lybia as we speak. I don't recall seeing any starving Lybians staggering out of the desert, only a relatively small number of intellectuals opposed to the regime, yet NATO and the US were quick to respond to their call.
Incidently, Lybia was successful creating an infrastructure to provide for its people, while fighting Sudan of all people. May not be perfect, but look what they have to work with.
So, what is going on? Is it humanitarian effort we are talking about or just cold hard politics?
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There is no connection between the drought and starving refugees and the Muslim pirates except that the pirates have overthrown the government in that region. The pirates are from a different part of Somalia and are not under the rule of the International temporary government overseen by the UN.
Government spokesman Omar Osman accused the hard-line Islamic insurgent group, al-Shabab, of thwarting humanitarian relief efforts.
“The situation is very grave [and] for us, our action is very limited due to the extreme nature of the drought,” said Omar. “We have seen an influx of refugees or internally displaced people fleeing from regions controlled by al-Shabab moving to government controlled areas.”
Described by Washington as a terrorist group with links to al-Qaida, al-Shabab militants control much of southern and central Somalia, while the government controls only parts of the capital, Mogadishu. It seems to me, al-Shabab like other militant Muslim groups has the intent to "Kill all Unbelievers"
Advocating the bombing of a drought ridden area filled with starving people is usually the solution of religious fanatics......a form of "kill all the unbelievers". I guess Canada isn't as moderate or civilized as I thought.
Ghaddafi is an arrogant mad-man. His people came out in peaceful demonstrations to demand the right to self rule and a few human rights. His army of 50,000 fired on the unarmed civilians. Before setting him up as a leader to look up to - read up a bit on him. He and his family make Oprah, The Queen of England, Bill Gates, together, look like paupers. He has money stashed in banks all over the world.......in excess of 128 billion. That money, most of it actually belongs to the Lybian people and should be used for them.