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« on: December 29, 2006, 11:28:22 AM » |
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"Ethiopia invades Somalia" -- Sounds like the punchline to a Sam Kinison joke.
It is interesting that Ethiopia could make such quick work with organized Islamist warlords, while the US, in the same region, came to such a pitiful end.
On the one hand, Ethiopian military can engage in ... tactics ... that
would never be tolerated by liberal opinion in this country.
On the other, who is to say that the Somali Islamist army, made of unemployed ignorant teenagers, hasn't simply thrown off their uniform and mixed back into the general population? Advances against a retreating rag-tag army are easy --- counterinsurgencies are not.
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