BlackVelvet wrote:Cirwaaq wrote:
Food Aid could have easily been air dropped, don't let Aid agencies foo you. They are aggressive in maintaining their contracts and Somalis have been a Fat cash Cow for 20years. To sustain their cash flow they would never promote or support any efforts for reconcilliations for peace.
Air drop food into an openly hostile environment where their planes could be gunned down and put aid workers' lives at risk?
Everyone has ulterior motives when it comes to Somalia and no one is helping out of the goodness of their hearts taas waa run. But Al Shabab really dropped the ball with this one. It's one this going around shoting at each other and writing off civilian deaths as collateral damage, it's another locking food out and letting people starve to death.
Ok they will never be my Heroes.
But
Open your mind's eye to this.
- It was shabab that discovered expired food aid being distributed by these same aids agencies.
- The Aid agencies flood the market and bring about total collapse of an economy.
- Self sufficeint regions become depedent consumers instead of producers.
- In 2 decades of war they have been quick to align themselves with specific warlords for distribution or own defence.
- We are talking about the fertile regions that have the shabeele and Jubba rivers, they have never needed food aid.
- Drought was realised 3 months ago. Same time battled intensified against shabab.
- This time last year there were similar food shortages in other parts, available resources were redistributed in their territory. So what stopped them this year in managing available resources?
There is no significant diffirence between the opposing sides of the somali conflict from a civilian's perspective. The only Fact is the somali people did not elect either to be leaders.