triangle.President ∆ People ∆ Army
You took something ad hoc and unorganized and you birthed the development of "Macawiisleey." They represented the people, they worked in tandem with the army, and they had the recognition and support of the President.
This was a different variation of something else that worked before them; Ahlu Sunnah.
In fact, Al Shabaab has not been defeated anywhere in Somalia as of now without this 3rd armed component directly representing something about the socio -cultural and/or spiritual resistance of Somalis to extremism.
It is not necessarily "clans." Clans have not worked anywhere.
The Macawiisleey was 'economical;' nomads wanting to herd without appropriation of livestock
Ahlu Sunnah was 'spiritual;" nomads wanting to freely practice without compulsion.
Again it is not clans per se.
Ahlu Sunnah worked in Western border areas. Macawiisleey worked in the Hiiraan.
Sir, something about the lower coastal plains must be identified as the impediment to overcome and effectively use against extremism.
In my opinion, I think it has something to do with resistance to negative acculturation or 'urban degeneracy' from Mogadishu.
Think isbaaro/checkpoints, the NGO/qandaraas-industrial complex, the property inflation, essentially the whole quick money making scams that Mogadishu's outlying perimeter is resisting.
There is a nexus here from Xarardheere to just north of Mogadishu where the people may in fact not have rised up yet because they might just actually find themselves "repelled" by your associations with the "30 jir 30 millions" of Benadir area.
Think about. This are your people. You know them well.
