The real reason Somalia is a failed state

[Armchair Politician]

Somalia has been described as unfixable many a time, however this is simply untrue. Time and time again we have seen, when Somalis can put their guns away, shake hands and go back to work, as if by magic everything works again. Volunteer committees collect garbage and enroll schoolchildren, the Somali economy, already the toughest I know of and the only thing to survive the civil war, booms. Law and order sweeps the land and people take to it with incredible enthusiasm.

 

Somalis are predisposed to building a prosperous and lawful state. So why is it that Somalia is plagued by banditry, lawlessness and food shortages?

 

It is because Somalia has become addicted to revenge. Revenge has become the catharsis to which all other considerations are brushed aside. And no amount of revenge ever seems adequate. Whoever manages to gather up stability or economic success or power, immediately expends it upon devastating their enemies, who had done the same to them just before.

 

Whether it be Puntland avenging 1992 upon Mogadishu, Somaliland avenging 2002 upon Puntland or Mogadishu avenging 2007 upon Puntland (which is next up in the cycle of revenge) it never seems to end.

 

When will it end?

[rudy-Diiriye]

watch! it will end when bush moves outta of the white house! hes the devil ask hugo... he will tell u about it.

 

somali clans have wared since ages, however, they were not dealing with puppets and foreign interventions. so the ball game is lil bit different at the moment.

 

back then, they settled differences with daqan, xeer and diin. it looks like warlord thugs clock is ticking away fast.

 

wixii nool weeye arki.