Depressing thought number 31 for today. We are going to be forced to enter Somalia and regain control of it simply because we cannot allow a state to become a hard-line Islamist State under the control of the very same nutjobs who want to murder us by the millions.

It is pitiful that this President has been saddled with so many ugly jobs left behind by former Presidents who didn't have the guts to protect us even if it meant being unpopular, Iraq, North Korea, Somalia, Afghanistan and the threat from radical Islam. Instead of facing up to the tasks that each of those problems demanded they merely kicked the can down the road. Apparently not realizing that there was a wall at the end of the road where all the cans gathered. Or perhaps they just didn't care as long as they didn't have to deal with them.

I disagree with more than a couple of things this President has done and a few things he believes in but there is no denying that no other President save perhaps Roosevelt has faced the sorts of dire problems this President has before him right now. From an active and widespread 5th Column led by intelligence agencies who are supposed to be working for him to Mainstream Media Outlets so terrified of the Islamic Nutjobs that they would give up their very souls to gain a promise of Dhimmi status from the Islamists. From a resurgent sack of communists who lead Anti War parades to crowds of "moderate" muslim organizations led by terrorist collaborators to plain terrified average folks who merely want to forget or worse ignore the threats that could have millions of us dying at the hands of 7th century freaks. Through all of this President Bush has to attempt to fight a war.

However misguided his belief is that democracy can spring up in the middle of a bunch of barbarians who sell videos of be-headings like children who trade baseball cards, I wish for his dream. With all my heart I have wished for his dream to be true but I am starting to simply not believe that anything save invading their countries, killing their leaders and converting them to our "religion of freedom" will ever work. Freedom and Democracy do not spring up from mild to moderate outside pressure but from the sort of wholesale murder and mayhem that drove the Germans and Japanese to accept Freedom as a condition of the cessation of hostilities.

Let us hope that we can find some way to avoid liberating Somalia. But if we are forced to let us hope that we use enough pressure to drive the toughest of them to capitulate.

At least 21 die as Islamists rid Somali capital of warlords: "Hardline Somali Islamic militants have declared 'absolute' victory over the remaining warlords in the lawless capital Mogadishu after clashes that claimed at least 21 lives, spelling the end of the notorious warlords' rule in the Indian Ocean city.

'We have absolutely won the fighting that started in Mogadishu this morning. We now control the whole city after we seized the last territory from warlord Qeydiid,' said Sheikh Mukhtar Robow, the deputy secretary of defence for the Islamic courts.
Fighters allied to the Supreme Islamic Council of Somalia ousted their rivals loyal to warlord Abdi Hassan Awale Qeydiid, who with warlord Hussein Aidid had refused to surrender and hand over their weapons to the Islamists, who routed the other warlords from the capital on June 5.

At least 21 people were killed Sunday, including civilians, in artillery duels in southern Mogadishu, while dozens were wounded and taken to the capital's Medina and Banadir hospitals, doctors, witnessess and militia said.
Witnesses said warlords' fighters fled from their positions, which they had held for many years, as Islamic militants on battlewagons -- pickup trucks equipped with machine guns -- established their bases, marking the end of the warlords' rule in the capital."

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