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Originally Posted by RedScott
Uh, the US funded the Afghans in the 80's.
Same will happen if we intervene in Somalia. Civil wars are terrible, but we should never intervene in them because to do so imbalances them to the point that one side can depict all the terms of the peace. Americans can't find Somalia on a map, how are they suppose to decide which side is the "good" guys?
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Well, someone, like the AU, needs to intervene (obviously not us Americans). If not, then there is a possibility, like what Nik said, that Somalia could fall into the hands of Islamic terrorists like Al-Qaeda or the Islamic Court Union, Somalia's equivalent of the Taliban. Somalia is not like "one of those African Civil Wars" that get constantly ignored. Plus, there's pirates off the country's long coast and it's possible that they could harm shipping in the Indian Ocean.
By the way, this maybe contradicting myself but Somalia has not have a government since 1991. Thus, Somalia was opened to terrorists 5 years longer than Afghanistan. Yet, the terrorists that attacked us on 9/11 were associated with Afghanistan instead of Somalia. At the same time though, us Americans did go to Somalia in 1993 to fight terrorists and now we think the same terrorists that destroyed our Black Hawk Helicopters are associated with Bin Laden.