DEFEND THE MOTHERLAND!

[fagash_killer]

Defend the Motherland!
By Mohamoud Gaildon
November 24, 2006

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister has just delivered to the parliament of his country worrisome words pregnant with peril for Somalia. Ostensibly, the Union of Islamic Courts, not Somalia, is the source of a “clear and present danger.” But to deal with this “clear and present danger,” Ethiopia will have to invade and occupy Somalia. The words of the Ethiopian Prime Minister are, therefore, nothing but a declaration of war on Somalia.

I read the Prime MinisterÂ’s words and wonder: Who is a danger to whom? Can bloodied and prostrate Somalia, totally spent and breathing in filth and dust, hurt anyone except itself? Or is it that the Ethiopian vulture finally finds the Somali nation an easy prey?

I am neither a supporter of the UIC nor an opponent of the Transitional Federal Government. Neither clan politics nor national chauvinism sways me one way or the other in regard to Ethiopia. My stand, shared by many fellow Somalis, is born of a time-tested conviction that Ethiopia is the enemy of the Somali nation. I have no desire to fan the flames of hostility between Abyssinia and Somalia. I have warm feelings for Ethiopians, who are a decent people worthy of respect and admiration. Sadly, however, over the centuries we Somalis have had nothing but death, destruction, and humiliation from the Ethiopian state.

Granted, SomaliaÂ’s festering wounds are largely self-inflicted. Under the crushing weight of a dictator, we floundered and lost our way. The opposition did what other Somalis in Awdal and Ifat had done centuries before: They crossed over to Ethiopia. And Mengistu did what Abyssinian kings had always done: foment insurrection, divide, and rule. It is said that, after the collapse of the Somali state, a vainglorious Mengistu strutted into an Ethiopian military officerÂ’s club and gloated: I HAVE DESTROYED SOMALIA!

Fellow Somalis, what has happened to us? Where is our sense of national pride?

LetÂ’s for once wake up and shake our demons off. In this world of billions of people, we are but a very small family. We suffer alone, bleed to death alone, languish from disease alone, and drown in the high seas alone as we have always done in our times of woe. And now in the face of EthiopiaÂ’s might we stand alone. Let bygones be bygones! Stand together, shoulder to shoulder, arm in arm. Remember 1964, and 1977, and times of long ago when Somali men and women did what they had to do. Turn your guns and bayonets away from one another, be firm and defend the Motherland!

Mohamoud A Gaildon
E-Mail:mgaildon@aol.com

[Steeler [Crawler2]]

Somalia - One Nation, One People!!!

Terminate the irredentist claims and the language of militarism against Ethiopia and Ethipiopia will forget about you.

[fagash_killer]

[quote="MAD MAC"]Somalia - One Nation, One People!!!

Terminate the irredentist claims and the language of militarism against Ethiopia and Ethipiopia will forget about you.[/quote]

true indeed one nation,one people

ethopiers are our brothers,but their warlords cant leave us.its in their interest to see us divided. if they retreat back to addis ababa and leave our brothers in somali galbeed alone and leave our issues to somalis yes than we dont have any problems.

one nation, one people

[Steeler [Crawler2]]

But Fagash, why is it in their interest to see you divided? Because when you are not divided, you are fighting the Ethiopians over the Ogaden. If you didn't have that irredentist claim, then it would not be in their interests to see you divided.