This certainly seems to be true: It loo...

2009-10-11T17:50:57.514-05:00
This certainly seems to be true: It looks as if Somalia is a test-case how far the military super-powers can go in violating the sovereignty of a state before other states realize what actually is going on . So far only countries like China and Indonesia or Malaysia seem to have understood the threat which comes out of the Somalia exercises also for the future sovereignty of their own countries.

I wonder if those three countries will try and turn the direction of this policy in the UN.

And as for PIS, for whom will it … solve the security and socioeconomic issues affecting developing countries and, in particular, Somalia and the Horn of Africa Region.

I'm sure it will make it a lot easier to rob the Somali's of their remaining natural resources, thereby solving some acquisition problems for the donor countries/military super powers. Mr. Fielding sounds like another one of those selfless individuals so common in the PMSC industry.

I've been listening to a novel, Stone's Fall, while I commute. It is mostly set among the British and French financiers and arms merchants before WWI. The remarks by characters about the uses of the military, and the attitude towards the colonial world as the proper place to use the military, beating up on people whose weapons are inferior, is not dissimilar from what we are seeing today. I don't like to make too much of fiction, though I like a good thriller. But listening to some parts of this story is quite eerie. This comes from just a few background remarks, but I noticed them.

Comments on africa comments: Somalia thread for the week ending October 11

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