From: HADCRJAM@admin.uh.edu (MILLER, JIMMY A.)
Newsgroups: alt.current-events.somalia
Subject: Re: Somalia
Date: 14 Dec 1992 15:44:24 GMT
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In <1992Dec14.084120.24964@math.ucla.edu> getachew@yosemite.math.ucla.edu writes:

> 	Again to add more from Chris Blask, I have to agree and disagree 
> with you. 
> 	The most imprtant thing which your eyes missed, but clear to the 
> entire world is 'who created the mess in Somalia?'. What an asshole! 
> Why are African wild animals does not starve to death? 

  Wild animals are better at handling drought than people, IMO.  Few animals
are starving in Somalia because they've been killed for food, is my guess.

> 	If you want to hear the answers, it's the US that created the whole
> mess in Somalia, it's that guilty concessions and possibly seeking advantage
> that drives the US to Somalia.  Do you know why animals in Africa 
> does not starve to death, too? It's simply stated they do not buy the evil 
> American guns. And more important they dont have those moron leaders that
> kill its own people for their egoist interest and power.

  Ah-ha!  At least you admit that the leaders of Somalia have some culpability
in this tragedy.  Always its the Americans who cause trouble (and we DO have 
plenty to answer for), never the folks who buy/use the the "evil guns".

> 	I can talk more than a book if you want, about the US mischief to 
> the entire innocent African people who usually trust it, but it's 
> worthless to say it here.

  Actually the "innocent" Africans have been doing just fine fighting and 
killing without any prompting from anybody.  The superpowers just took advant-
age of it.

> I, on the other hand agree with the US gov't
> on accepting the fact that they were part of the problem out there and 
> trying to fix the mess they created, but not with your half-witted idea
> that the US being the policeman of the entire world, nor the fact that the 
> US is the only nation that can do this. Got it!

  France, Germany, the UK, Australia, Canada and maybe one or two others might
have the ability to go to Somalia with enough troops to make a difference.  Why
not complain to them for NOT going instead of the US because it did (I don't
know how many Legionaires France has sent, but Canada sent something like 150.
Wow.  Be still my heart.)?  First they complain that we do nothing, then they 
bitch and moan about ulterior motives.  Pick something and stick with it.


semper fi,

Jammer Jim Miller 
Texas A&M University '89 and '91
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