From: altheimm@nextnet.csus.edu (Murray Altheim)
Subject: Re: Somalia [was: Start again]
Organization: California State University Sacramento
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:32:02 GMT

In article <Bz3ot8.342@access.digex.com>
   corun@access.digex.com (Corun MacAnndra) writes:
>In article <1992Dec10.011403.18192@csus.edu>
   altheimm@nextnet.csus.edu (Murray Altheim) writes:
>
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>>I would argue that the money is much better spent at home, where with
>>much less effort, we could enable the disinfranchised here to reenter
>>society, get a job, live in decent housing, and receive an education.
>>By maintaining the poorest of the poor without giving them the ability to
>>make a better home for their children, the generational class division
>>is maintained. I don't feel that the US can or should have the commitment
>>to make that happen in Somalia without establishing and maintaining a
>>commitment to fix our own problems first.
>
>This is exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. Thank you Murray.
>This country is one the most technologically rich and educationally poor
>countries on the planet. The "American Dream (tm)" is currently a sham.
>With so many ablebodied people out of work and on the streets, we have
>no business trying to fix another country's problems......yet. We have
>to start at home, and once our house in order, go on to help our neighbors.
>Once we've got our neighbors on the right track, we can start acting
>more like the global family we should be.
>
>I can't even begin to imagine what's going on in the minds of the lame
>duck government right now. Is this some last ditch effort to seriously
>fuck with Clinton's administration by leaving him a nice little shooting
>war to deal with? 
[...]
>I guess I have just one more question. Who the fuck is really running
>this country and what is going on in their tiny minds to make them so
>blatantly ignore the obvious? It's a sure bet that if WE (by that I
>mean lay people with average to better education) can think of these
>things, the Controllers can.
>
>Bb,
>Corun

Corun,

I'll take the paranoid view. There seems to be little else by way of 
justification for our involvement in Somalia. Similar and even worse 
situations have existed all over Africa for years, and noone has even
glanced in that direction. The many battlegrounds around the world
have been classed as internal squabbles and ignored. Why Somalia?

I think the answer has more to do with Bush's lame-duck administration
than with the internal politics and problems in Somalia. It really fries
by beans that we're there at all, what with all the people here in dire
straits.

Blessings,

Murray

ps. I didn't ignore your request for the Latin translation. I still have
some skills in reading, but I've forgotten how to compose accurately. Over
the holidays I'm going to be visiting my folks, and since I need to bone
up on my Latin anyway for my Master's program, I'm going to find my old
Latin books. I'll try emailing it to you when I get a clue. :-)

-- 
Murray M. Altheim      "Ils ont l'orteil de Bouc, & d'un Chevreil l'oreille,
Instructional Consultant    La corne d'un Chamois, & la face vermeille
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