AUGUST 02, 2011
REAL CLEAR WORLD
Posted by Greg Scoblete at 9:38 AM
David Axe passes on this bit of news from Somalia:
Bad news in America’s five-year-old proxy war against al-Qaida-allied Somali insurgents. Half of the U.S.-supplied weaponry that enables cash-strapped Ugandan and Burundian troops to fight Somalia’s al-Shabab terror group is winding up in al-Shabab’s hands.The kicker: it’s the cash-strapped Ugandans who are selling the weapons to the insurgents.
This revelation, buried in U.N. reports and highlighted by controversial war correspondent Robert Young Pelton at his new Somalia Report website, raises some unsettling questions about Washington’s plans to out-source more wars in the future.
Isn't it a bit odd how the U.S. defense establishment has simply dusted off the Cold War script to battle Islamic terrorism, plunging into various wars via proxy forces, dumping cash and guns around in an unaccountable and often counter-productive manner? I mean, would the U.S. face intolerable danger if we didn't hand cash and guns over to Uganda to fight in Somalia?
