A Response to Professor Abdi Ismail Samatar

[Deeq A.]

Professor Abdi Ismail Samatar's opinion piece 'Somalia's strategy for the war against al-Shabaab will condemn the country to perpetual hell' in the Daily Maverick offers much food–indeed, a veritable feast for thought. As much as I applaud the learned professor's remarkable contribution as laid out in the lines of his opinion piece, I find some of his claims hard to swallow for reasons I will explain below. Courtesy and fairness would suggest that I give equal time to those aspects of his expiations that I admire and those I find unpersuasive. In the interest of brevity, however, I shall focus more on the latter.

Source: Hiiraan Online