Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Somalia...

In the course of two months, the United States has helped run the Islamic Courts out of Somalia. Austin Bay has the latest updates, including reports on an AC-130 strike.

The AC-130 strike is some nice payback for the 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. Whoever gave us the location of those terrorist creeps, this American thanks you.

Al-Qaeda wanted a jihad in Somalia. Well, they got one. That settles most of the debts there.

Fighting with surrogates is one way to get the job done (see the performance of los Pepes against the Medellin drug cartel as one example). Special Forces troops who can coordinate support, provide intelligence and training, and carry out some missions can help America in the war on terror. Soemthing similar could be done with Darfur. Four Special Forces A-Teams, with some guys from Blackwater as backup, plus weapons. Primarily small arms, although with the known Sudanese Air Force involvement, we'll have to provide Stinger missiles as well.

But intervention would be very doable.

3 comments:

Ken Prescott said...

105 gunner on the AC-130:

"Say hello to my little friend!

Harold said...

Imagine what an AC-17 could do...

:)

Ken Prescott said...

Imagine what an AC-17 could do...

Fly too fast to do the job. :)