Somalia: Clinton Calls Eritrea's Meddling 'Unacceptable'

ZamZam wrote:

I wish Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Kenya, and Sudan all become peaceful and progressive...and peaceful neighbors.

Asmarino wrote:

Yaya: the US actually really needs and wants some kind of normalcy in Somalia, not because it cared about the Somalis but because it really is worried and afraid that Somalia might become another Afganistan. They are not doing this for Ethiopia, although they don't mind it if it helps their ally Ethiopia along the way. They want this to work mainly for themselves so that they don't have to worry about another Alkaida revival.
I belive the US's main interest in Eritrea here is for Eritrea to NOT help anyone group (Alshabab, that is) who might stregthen the "islamists" to get hold of the country.

Asmarino wrote:

Yaya: the US actually really needs and wants some kind of normalcy in Somalia, not because it cared about the Somalis but because it really is worried and afraid that Somalia might become another Afganistan. They are not doing this for Ethiopia, although they don't mind it if it helps their ally Ethiopia along the way. They want this to work mainly for themselves so that they don't have to worry about another Alkaida revival.
I belive the US's main interest in Eritrea here is for Eritrea to NOT help anyone group (Alshabab, that is) who might stregthen the "islamists" to get hold of the country.

Garxajis wrote:

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USA's wants peace in Somalia?? Is that why they financed, trained, supported warlords who been feeding on their own for 17 years against the Islamic courts back in 2006?
http://www.alternet.org/story/46424/
"The stability that emerged in southern Somalia after 16 years of utter lawlessness is gone, the defeat of the ruling Islamic Courts Union now ushering in looting, martial law and the prospect of another major anti-Western insurgency. Clan warlords, who terrorized Somalia until they were driven out by the Islamists, and who were put back in power by the U.S.-backed and -trained Ethiopian army, have begun carving up the country once again.
With these developments, the Bush administration, undeterred by the horrors and setbacks in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon, has opened another battlefront in this volatile quarter of the Muslim world. As with Iraq, it casts this illegal war as a way to curtail terrorism, but its real goal appears to be to obtain a direct foothold in a highly strategic area of the world through a client regime. The results could destabilize the whole region."
The Horn of Africa, at whose core Somalia lies, is newly oil-rich. It is also just miles across the Red Sea from Saudi Arabia and Yemen, overlooking the daily passage of large numbers of oil tankers and warships through that waterway. The United States has a huge military base in neighboring Djibouti that is being enlarged substantially and will become the headquarters of a new U.S. military command being created specifically for Africa. As evidence of the area's importance, Gen. John Abizaid, the military commander of the region, visited Ethiopia recently to discuss Somalia, while Chinese President Hu Jintao visited Horn countries a few months ago in search of oil and trade agreements.
The current series of events began with the rise of the Islamic Courts more than a year ago. The Islamists avoided large-scale violence in defeating the warlords, who had held sway in Somalia ever since they drove out U.N. peacekeepers by killing eighteen American soldiers in 1993, by rallying people to their side through establishing law and order. Washington was wary, fearing their possible support for terrorists. While they have denied any such intentions, some Islamists do have terrorist ties, but these have been vastly overstated in the West.

ZamZam wrote:

I wish Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Kenya, and Sudan all become peaceful and progressive...and peaceful neighbors.

-FlowerBomb- wrote:

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I agree. I wish we work together and stop pointing fingers

yaya wrote:

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flowerbomb did you want me to return to the old me replying to you again?dont associate eritrea with ethiopia again alot of eritrean blood spilled to declare otherwise.

yaya wrote:

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flowerbomb did you want me to return to the old me replying to you again?dont associate eritrea with ethiopia again alot of eritrean blood spilled to declare otherwise.

yaya wrote:

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flowerbomb did you want me to return to the old me replying to you again?dont associate eritrea with ethiopia again alot of eritrean blood spilled to declare otherwise.

mega wrote:

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are you here to scare people? if you ........
FYI the internet is not a safe place ,insulting is very easy online but If you like risks you can find someone sitting beside you before your hands leaving the keyboard