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Wait a minute now, is WAB a signatory to the Geneva Convention? I think butter cookies are in the banned weapons list.
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A couple MiG-23BNs drop some butter cookies who will link it back to us? This is war dammit! We'll just stall and water down the UN investigation.
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Once the Ethiopians leave, it will be back to the same old story- feuding warlords and private militias
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The AU doesn't have the forces, and the UN doesn't have the will. Who is going to step in?
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Ethiopia has penned a deal last year to use Somalia's ports.
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Like ME, the colonialists drew illogical borders to suit their economic and political aims!
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On ethnic lines Somalia might be better off then most nations. Their falling apart was due to bad leadership and battlefield defeat which caused the nation to fall apart.
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Even in the light of a complete rout, they were offered amnesty. How stupid. They should have been driven into the sea.
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Gives the warlords who joined the ICU after they started getting big the option of going over to the government; most of the ICU were warlords/members of warlord armies. Many warlords had defected from the TG after the ICU started winning. Hell the commander of the ICU military forces (who fled to Saudi Arabia after the shooting started with Ethiopia) was a brutal warlord who joined the ICU.
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I say move on the Philippines, combine US naval supremacy with Filipino ground operations and isolate and rout the enemy there next. One country at a time... keep sustained pressure on the major front while systematically seeking and destroying terrorist-aligned forces one country at a time.
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In the case of the Philippines we need to supply some more ships (to patrol), radios and helicopters (to move the LRB/SR) and they will finish off the ASG/JI. They have already worked out a sorta deal with Indonesia to deal with JI in both nations. Of course conducting joint training with the USA in war zones has helped out a lot in the past...
They have some major problems that aid cannot help which has hurt them in the field.
Probably not the best threat to discuss COIN in the Philippines I guess.
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It is noteworthy that our smaller allies have been winning while the big ticket conflicts are bogged down.