Comments on: Ethopians About To Take Control Of Mogadishu http://donklephant.com/2006/12/28/ethopians-about-to-take-control-of-mogadishu/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:41:00 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Confused http://donklephant.com/2006/12/28/ethopians-about-to-take-control-of-mogadishu/comment-page-1/#comment-170978 Confused Sat, 30 Dec 2006 02:29:24 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/12/28/ethopians-about-to-take-control-of-mogadishu/#comment-170978 ascap_scab and Jimmy, Doesn't all depend on who is on the other end of the business end of the gun? You both have a good point. Think it through and argue the pros and cons of intervening in another country's conflicts; when has it been beneficial to our country's interest, and when it has not. ascap_scab and Jimmy,

Doesn’t all depend on who is on the other end of the business end of the gun? You both have a good point. Think it through and argue the pros and cons of intervening in another country’s conflicts; when has it been beneficial to our country’s interest, and when it has not.

]]> By: Jimmy the Dhimmi http://donklephant.com/2006/12/28/ethopians-about-to-take-control-of-mogadishu/comment-page-1/#comment-170603 Jimmy the Dhimmi Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:13:28 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/12/28/ethopians-about-to-take-control-of-mogadishu/#comment-170603 <em>Right, because as we have learned from so many wars, freedom can only be attained with the business end of a gun!! </em> I sense you're sarcasm, but think about what you are saying. Do you prefer slavery for blacks in the 20th century, or that the civil war was faught 150 years ago. Is it ideal for all of europe to be controlled today by the Nazis, ethnically cleansed of Jews and such, or that WWII was faught? If good chooses not to fight evil, then evil is guaranteed to win. Your forefathers who died for this country understood that, but apparently you don't, or perhaps you don't care, or perhaps you are sympathethic to the Confederates and Nazis and terrorists. Which is it scab? Right, because as we have learned from so many wars, freedom can only be attained with the business end of a gun!!
I sense you’re sarcasm, but think about what you are saying. Do you prefer slavery for blacks in the 20th century, or that the civil war was faught 150 years ago. Is it ideal for all of europe to be controlled today by the Nazis, ethnically cleansed of Jews and such, or that WWII was faught?

If good chooses not to fight evil, then evil is guaranteed to win. Your forefathers who died for this country understood that, but apparently you don’t, or perhaps you don’t care, or perhaps you are sympathethic to the Confederates and Nazis and terrorists. Which is it scab?

]]> By: ascap_scab http://donklephant.com/2006/12/28/ethopians-about-to-take-control-of-mogadishu/comment-page-1/#comment-170137 ascap_scab Thu, 28 Dec 2006 22:29:49 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/12/28/ethopians-about-to-take-control-of-mogadishu/#comment-170137 *My one tip for Ethopia…don’t stop. Keep pounding night after night and week after week. These guys go into hiding and come back when you least expect it. Don’t let them lull you into false confidence. That’s what happened to us in Iraq, and you can see how that’s turning out.* Right, because as we have learned from so many wars, freedom can only be attained with the business end of a gun!! *My one tip for Ethopia…don’t stop. Keep pounding night after night and week after week. These guys go into hiding and come back when you least expect it. Don’t let them lull you into false confidence. That’s what happened to us in Iraq, and you can see how that’s turning out.*

Right, because as we have learned from so many wars, freedom can only be attained with the business end of a gun!!

]]> By: Iconic Midwesterner http://donklephant.com/2006/12/28/ethopians-about-to-take-control-of-mogadishu/comment-page-1/#comment-170136 Iconic Midwesterner Thu, 28 Dec 2006 22:26:26 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/12/28/ethopians-about-to-take-control-of-mogadishu/#comment-170136 Hopefully the government backed forces will ignore the UN requests to end the fighting. Can anyone make sense of the UN? Here they back the creation of the government in Somalia, but they don't back the right of that government to defend itself? Hopefully the government backed forces will ignore the UN requests to end the fighting. Can anyone make sense of the UN? Here they back the creation of the government in Somalia, but they don’t back the right of that government to defend itself?

]]> By: Sean Aqui http://donklephant.com/2006/12/28/ethopians-about-to-take-control-of-mogadishu/comment-page-1/#comment-170113 Sean Aqui Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:35:19 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/12/28/ethopians-about-to-take-control-of-mogadishu/#comment-170113 I just hope they're able to establish firm control over most of the country, even if fighting continues in the hinterlands for a while. The last thing the Somalis need is another decade of clan-based anarchic warfare. I just hope they’re able to establish firm control over most of the country, even if fighting continues in the hinterlands for a while. The last thing the Somalis need is another decade of clan-based anarchic warfare.

]]> By: Iconic Midwesterner http://donklephant.com/2006/12/28/ethopians-about-to-take-control-of-mogadishu/comment-page-1/#comment-170108 Iconic Midwesterner Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:03:51 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/12/28/ethopians-about-to-take-control-of-mogadishu/#comment-170108 At least the Ethiopians are taking the time to cultivate power structures (i.e. clans) WITHIN Somalia to actively ally with. We ignored the sheiks and clan leaders because they weren't "democratic" enough. Our motto should have been, "Just Win Baby." Good luck to the Ethiopians. At least the Ethiopians are taking the time to cultivate power structures (i.e. clans) WITHIN Somalia to actively ally with. We ignored the sheiks and clan leaders because they weren’t “democratic” enough. Our motto should have been, “Just Win Baby.”

Good luck to the Ethiopians.

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