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Obama and other Democrats who have pushed relentlessly for a pullout from Iraq, insisting on arbitrary timelines and heedless of the need to consolidate battlefield victories, should look hard at Somalia.(THE WEEK)(Brief article)
* Obama and other Democrats who have pushed relentlessly for a pullout from Iraq, insisting on arbitrary timelines and heedless of the need to consolidate battlefield victories, should look hard at Somalia. In 2006, the Qaeda-affiliated Islamic Courts Union was seemingly routed by U.S.-backed Ethiopian forces. But although it was driven from major cities, the ICU was never fully defeated, and it regrouped in remote areas to mount a vicious terrorist insurgency. Meanwhile, the Ethiopians gave way to the African Union, which, intimidated by jihadi attacks, never delivered on its promise of 8,000 peacekeepers--a force that would have been too paltry to keep the peace anyway. Having survived, the jihadis are now resurgent. ...
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