Ever since the uprising in Iran over their recent elections, Americans have been somewhat mixed over if President Obama should move beyond his rather light and empty rhetoric over the situation. Some have insisted that the cry for democracy in Iran is none of our business and that the US should stop “meddling” in the affairs of another country, like Bush did.
Apparently Somalia wasn’t included in that memo.
U.S. Has Sent 40 Tons of Munitions to Aid Somali Government
washingtonpost.comThe U.S. government has provided about 40 tons of weapons and ammunition to shore up the besieged government of Somalia in the past six weeks and has sent funding to train Somali soldiers, a senior State Department official said yesterday, in the most complete accounting to date of the new American efforts in the strife-torn country.
The official, who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity, said the military aid was worth less than $10 million and had been approved by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the National Security Council.
“We do not want to see Somalia become a safe haven for foreign terrorists,” the official said. (more…)
Wasn’t this the same argument used for Iraq and who is gonna start keeping track of all the child soldiers that are currently engaged in this conflict?
Child Soldiers Being Recruited in Somalia, Say Humanitarian Agencies
Somali leader says Islamists use child soldiers (So in short, we [the United States] are funding an army that is fighting against Islamic rebels who regularly use children on their front lines).
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