The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #115862   Message #2488600
Posted By: CarolC
08-Nov-08 - 03:39 PM
Thread Name: BS: Teenager stoned: A Story, which beggars belief
Subject: RE: BS: A Story, which beggars belief
On the subject of UN intervention in a failed state, I think that the first thing we (the US) needs to do is to stop doing things that have the result of destabilizing the country. What is happening in Somalia is a resource war. We are competing with other powers for the resources in that country, and we are contributing to the destabilization there in our efforts to gain control of the resources. Just as we have done and continue to do in other countries. As long as we continue to do this, the UN hasn't got a chance at any kind of intervention.