US prepares for military intervention in Somalia

US prepares for military intervention in Somalia

by Susan Garth
Global Research, August 11, 2011

The Obama administration is preparing a new military intervention in Somalia under the pretext of humanitarian concern for starving drought victims. The media has fallen into line with a campaign mixing crocodile tears and hand-wringing with denunciations of the Islamist movement al-Shabaab, which is blamed for the deepening crisis.

Just as the bombing campaign in Libya was launched with appeals to save the civilian population of Benghazi from slaughter, so now a fresh intervention is being prepared in Africa supposedly to save the starving children of Somalia. This is a cynical exercise in public deception.

Al-Shabaab is at most 10,000 strong, according to a report produced for the US Council on Foreign Relations. Its most loyal forces probably amount to only a few hundred fighters. It has no organisational connections to Al Qaeda, according to the National Counterterrorism Center.

Yet US officials blame this organisation for the present famine. “The relentless terrorism by al-Shabaab against its people has turned an already severe situation into a dire one that is only expected to get worse,â€

A lot of argument has been put forth that Pres. Clinton should have done a better job of nipping Al Qaeda in the bud. What's the essential difference here? The only one I can see is that now the African Union is supposed to be doing more to police its own continent.

Control of Somalia is a key US goal if it is to maintain global hegemony against rivals such as China.

Kind of late for that.
China owns us.

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Originally Posted by posylady

Control of Somalia is a key US goal if it is to maintain global hegemony against rivals such as China.

Kind of late for that.
China owns us.

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I believe that what we are doing is hiring mercenaries ( i.e. contractors) to train and fight in Somalia.