Did it dawn on you that Somalia has changed for the best?
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 9:59 pm
Recently I was thinking and analyzing why I am opposed to Shiekh Sharif and realized all the excuses I had put forward were really petty.
Excuses such as he ran, he left Asmara for Djibouti, he now wears a suit instead of khameez, a koofi barawani instead of cimaamad and I realized all that was so irrelavant and really just petty.
The reality is are WARLORDS any more in the equation?
I remember a time when a government being built in Djbouti or Kenya was such a side issue and viewed with almost comedic terms in a way that implied "oh wow another government expected to be controlled by and yield to warlords who in the end will destroy it".
But the real issue is where are the warlords?
Understand I am not talking about any clan. I mean warlords from all spectrum, in the collective sense of Somalia whether mines or Hawiye ror Raxanweyn or anyone else.
Today we look at a Djibouti conference with expectations and trust never ever bestowed any other government built for SOmalia in the last 20 years since the downfall of the late Siad Barre's government. We see them as actually BEING a government for SOmalia and there is not a single warlord having power in it nor has the ability or weight to have any influence in it.
In effect, we EXPECT this government to go to Muqdisho, we expect them to get the ball rolling, to truly bring SOmalis together, and to lay the real foundation for the future peaceful Somalia we really want to see.
Because of our hopes for a government, there really is not a person more suitable than Shiekh Sharif to be given the top position.
It is not that the Shiekh is any more educated or qualified then all the other people, but it is because of the SHiekh himself why he must become the president.
Naming a Shiekh for president of Somalia will bring the wadaado on board. It will bring all the people who want to see Somalia with an once of Islamic morality to accept this government and in the present era where the country's military power is controlled by wadaado, they have to be courted and brought on board. This much is clear enough.
However, the Shiekh is also on good terms with the West and in a globalized reality where the US is the world's only superpower the West's concerns about the Islamic power in SOmalia has to be alleviated if we expect the West not only to accept the wadaado but as well as invest in our country and open up the floodgates of world economy for us.
The Shiekh also has the support of the common Somali man who sees him as the public leader who presided over the people's revolution against the warlord vampires in 2006. For 20 years the common Somali man was oppressed, he was made powerless, he watched his daughter raped, and his wife robbed, he was denied the right to live honorably and at every point he was emasculated by the vicious warlords and their blood-sucking militias who subjugated him. It is not the wadaado who defeated the warlords in 2006. It was the common man, united under 20 years of unbearably living, and Shiekh SHarif presided over and represented that honorable campaign.
When you take all that into consideration and you look at the LONG RUN, the BIG PICTURE, and analyze what you want Somalia to be and how it can possibly get there, Shiekh SHarif is really the man for the job. He embodies all the qualities of the kind of person desired, and in fact NEEDED to move Somalia forward at this time.
It is time to stop thinking small and realize Somalia has changed for the best and Shiekh Sharif is the person that can best help the nation complete the next crucial steps successfully.
If AL SHabaab resists, they will unmask themselves as enemies of the Somali people. Ethiopia is gone and the honorable fight against them will always be viewed as the war for liberty and freedom, but the fact is Ethiopia is now gone. It is Somalia and Somalis. If Al Shabaab picks up the gun against the Somali consensus and dialogue to bring their nation back, they would have declared themselves as enemies of the Somali people and it is both religious and patriotic to support a campaign against them.
Did it dawn on you that Somalia has changed for the best?
Excuses such as he ran, he left Asmara for Djibouti, he now wears a suit instead of khameez, a koofi barawani instead of cimaamad and I realized all that was so irrelavant and really just petty.
The reality is are WARLORDS any more in the equation?
I remember a time when a government being built in Djbouti or Kenya was such a side issue and viewed with almost comedic terms in a way that implied "oh wow another government expected to be controlled by and yield to warlords who in the end will destroy it".
But the real issue is where are the warlords?
Understand I am not talking about any clan. I mean warlords from all spectrum, in the collective sense of Somalia whether mines or Hawiye ror Raxanweyn or anyone else.
Today we look at a Djibouti conference with expectations and trust never ever bestowed any other government built for SOmalia in the last 20 years since the downfall of the late Siad Barre's government. We see them as actually BEING a government for SOmalia and there is not a single warlord having power in it nor has the ability or weight to have any influence in it.
In effect, we EXPECT this government to go to Muqdisho, we expect them to get the ball rolling, to truly bring SOmalis together, and to lay the real foundation for the future peaceful Somalia we really want to see.
Because of our hopes for a government, there really is not a person more suitable than Shiekh Sharif to be given the top position.
It is not that the Shiekh is any more educated or qualified then all the other people, but it is because of the SHiekh himself why he must become the president.
Naming a Shiekh for president of Somalia will bring the wadaado on board. It will bring all the people who want to see Somalia with an once of Islamic morality to accept this government and in the present era where the country's military power is controlled by wadaado, they have to be courted and brought on board. This much is clear enough.
However, the Shiekh is also on good terms with the West and in a globalized reality where the US is the world's only superpower the West's concerns about the Islamic power in SOmalia has to be alleviated if we expect the West not only to accept the wadaado but as well as invest in our country and open up the floodgates of world economy for us.
The Shiekh also has the support of the common Somali man who sees him as the public leader who presided over the people's revolution against the warlord vampires in 2006. For 20 years the common Somali man was oppressed, he was made powerless, he watched his daughter raped, and his wife robbed, he was denied the right to live honorably and at every point he was emasculated by the vicious warlords and their blood-sucking militias who subjugated him. It is not the wadaado who defeated the warlords in 2006. It was the common man, united under 20 years of unbearably living, and Shiekh SHarif presided over and represented that honorable campaign.
When you take all that into consideration and you look at the LONG RUN, the BIG PICTURE, and analyze what you want Somalia to be and how it can possibly get there, Shiekh SHarif is really the man for the job. He embodies all the qualities of the kind of person desired, and in fact NEEDED to move Somalia forward at this time.
It is time to stop thinking small and realize Somalia has changed for the best and Shiekh Sharif is the person that can best help the nation complete the next crucial steps successfully.
If AL SHabaab resists, they will unmask themselves as enemies of the Somali people. Ethiopia is gone and the honorable fight against them will always be viewed as the war for liberty and freedom, but the fact is Ethiopia is now gone. It is Somalia and Somalis. If Al Shabaab picks up the gun against the Somali consensus and dialogue to bring their nation back, they would have declared themselves as enemies of the Somali people and it is both religious and patriotic to support a campaign against them.
Did it dawn on you that Somalia has changed for the best?
