Proxy War Gloves are Off

Finally blogger comes up - but from the warning sign they've got up, not for long.

I'm not surprised that we've conducted attacks in Somalia, but I am a bit concerned about more than a few things in connection with those attacks.
I won't even say that I think the attacks were bad (oh but read on).
There's a time and a method for the use of force in ungoverned, semi-governed, and even governed lands.
This administration however doesn't realise that it's the 21st century with instant news from almost anywhere in the world and not the days of the pony express.

Let's take the first concern and set it aside, lots of folks are going to talk about it and you can read what they have to say, I won't play in that game at this time you can read it elsewhere - the widening war and wag the dog etc. etc. Not here' not right now.

AC-130 Gunship operations???
Somebody's taken a page out of Full Metal Jacket, AC-130 doesn't say limited surgical operation against a target of opportunity, it says that we are conducting what will be a longer series of operations.
Surgical is tomahawk missiles or Predator launches. Putting American's back in Somalia is a damned bad idea.

Last week the U.S. denied any involvement with the Ethiopian actions in Somalia, but this action shows that to be a flat out lie to the world community.
In the world a country runs on it's reputation even more than it's economy - our country's reputation just got another great big stain on it's Red White and BLUE from the Gap, dress.


This make FOUR open military fronts for our country now; Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and the Philippines. Yup, everyone forgot our boys over in the Pacific front.
The military is not structured for it, our economy isn't structured for it, and our Democracy isn't structured for it.
The Ethiopian/American action in Somalia may look like the right thing to do to a casual America observer, but if you look at the pressure that is building on Somalia's borders nations you're going to see some massive damage to country's like Kenya that are going to start to implode and be forced into genocide by the effects of who is crossing the border now (violent people) vs who was crossing before (desperate people).

No, I was unhappy about the long term result of folly in Iraq but I'm seriously concerned about the increased destabilization of Africa.