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Thursday
Feb182010

Here we go again...

U.N. Criticizes U.S. Restrictions on Aid for Somalia

I would spend more time policy bashing, but this is my first foray into blogging in some time, so I'm going be brief with my rant. Very brief.

With moves that include aid policies based on ungrounded "facts" and using peace keepers to traffic arms to an unstable "government", the U.S. is hardly accomplishing anything in Somalia, other than Shabab recruitment. Well, there's that and the abandonment of the innocent collateral in our... um... "war on terror"... or whatever we're calling it these days -- you know the underwear bomber had Washington questioning dropping that phrase -- but I guess they go hand in hand.

Good job, guys.

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