Folks, go on over to this blog at Wired and let him have it:
As in Iraq, a pre-emptive war targeting potential terrorists has backfired. Thanks to the U.S. intervention, Somali fighters now have common cause with extremists in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and elsewhere. Don’t believe me? A couple days ago a Somali journalist showed me an anonymous text-message death threat he’d received, apparently from the nationalist insurgent group Al Shabab.
It was signed “Al Shabab = mujahideen.” The local guerrillas had morphed into international jihadists.
His rap is that we caused the Islamic militants to magically come alive in Somalia when we helped Somalia by killing them off. He is way out of his league here. Al Qaeda and other groups were in there many years ago trying to take over. True, they failed, but that doesn't mean there wasn't still an Islamic militant strain already in place when we decided to help the Ethiopians take them out.
Utter display of ignorance over there at Wired, a true disappointment from a well regarded publication.
Oh boy, that one takes the cake. Not only historically wrong, but logically incoherent as well.
Let me guess: killing Nazis during WWII created more Nazi sympathizers.
Posted by: Doug Ross | Tuesday, November 27, 2007 at 08:40 PM