Dustyn Winder

I won't take the time to stress myself out with a long, drawn-out explanation of the story -- mainly because Texas in Africa did a great job already and partly because I don't want to ruin my day.

You see, it appears that the weapons that the United States have been providing to the transitional government in Somalia -- you know to fight the terrorists -- are being sold in Mogadishu markets. And lions and tigers and bears oh my am I surprised. 

I mean really, did we expect anything differently? When you give weapons to a government that can't even control its own capital city, how do you expect that to turn out.

Forget the fact that the U.S. has a policy of non-intervention in Somalia. I guess that only applies to when people need help. But let the former president say that Somalia could be a hotbed for terrorist activity (a self-fulfilling prophecy) and take actions that effect non-militant Islamic communities that succeed only in pissing them and the diaspora off and making the madrassas and jihad seem like a far superior option to secular schooling and peace (more self-fulfillment) and it's time for non-interventionist intervention in the Horn.

The part of it all that gets me the most, and I'll stop after this, is that we used Ugandan peacekeepers to distribute the weapons. Peace. Keepers. Keepers of the peace dealing arms.

But yeah, we expected it to end well.