The US has been, consistently, in a de facto war with Somalia going all the way back to the war of 1993 when western media showed us the images of Aideed's warlords dragging the bodies of dead GIs behind their jeeps through the streets of Mogadishu. Hollywood made a movie about that called "Black Hawk Down".
The official story is that the US, shortly afterwards, said the hell wit dis and went back home. But, what actually happened was that America from then on focused more on using Africans Europeans control to kill Africans Europeans do not control. Hence, the US placed a bounty on Aideed's head, and soon enough Aideed ended up dead by African hands ... not a far cry from how the CIA orchestrated the assasination of Patrice Lumumba.
After that, Somali was one holy mess until the Islamic Courts started to bring some measure of order to the chaos in the early 2000s. But, America's foreign policy against African states is to arm and back which ever groups pose the greatest threat to peace. Hence, the US did a complete about face and started arming and otherwise supporting the Somali warlords against the Islamic Courts. But, the Islamic Courts kicked the warlords' butt. So, next, the US sent John Abizaid of Central Command to Ethiopia and Kenya where he instigating the 2006-2009 Ethiopia invasion of Somalia:
http://nazret.com/blog/index.php?title=general_john_abizaid_held_talks_with_eth&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
But, after a few years of killing other Africans for White Folks, Zenawi finally said to hell wit dis, Which is why, per the report this thread began with, the US has recently taken a more active role in the quest to keep Somalia in complete chaos.
Obama, no surprise, has continued this purely white supremacist foreign policy. The following piece, written by a African reporter for Al Jazeera, talks specifically about this:
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/africa/2009/09/21/obamas-incoherent-policy-somalia
The official story is that the US, shortly afterwards, said the hell wit dis and went back home. But, what actually happened was that America from then on focused more on using Africans Europeans control to kill Africans Europeans do not control. Hence, the US placed a bounty on Aideed's head, and soon enough Aideed ended up dead by African hands ... not a far cry from how the CIA orchestrated the assasination of Patrice Lumumba.
After that, Somali was one holy mess until the Islamic Courts started to bring some measure of order to the chaos in the early 2000s. But, America's foreign policy against African states is to arm and back which ever groups pose the greatest threat to peace. Hence, the US did a complete about face and started arming and otherwise supporting the Somali warlords against the Islamic Courts. But, the Islamic Courts kicked the warlords' butt. So, next, the US sent John Abizaid of Central Command to Ethiopia and Kenya where he instigating the 2006-2009 Ethiopia invasion of Somalia:
http://nazret.com/blog/index.php?title=general_john_abizaid_held_talks_with_eth&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
But, after a few years of killing other Africans for White Folks, Zenawi finally said to hell wit dis, Which is why, per the report this thread began with, the US has recently taken a more active role in the quest to keep Somalia in complete chaos.
Obama, no surprise, has continued this purely white supremacist foreign policy. The following piece, written by a African reporter for Al Jazeera, talks specifically about this:
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/africa/2009/09/21/obamas-incoherent-policy-somalia