Muqdisho winning propaganda, Jowhar winning diplomacy

[wind.talker]

Really long, semi one-sided piece posted on Wardheer News about the TFG and its current state of affairs. I liked one part towards the end whereby the author divides the problem into two fronts: diplomatic and propaganda, with Jowhar leading the former and Muqdisho leading the latter. How true is that?

 

THE RATIONAL AND THE IRRATIONAL IN THE SOMALI NATIONAL RECONCILIATION

 

Ismail Ali Ismail

 

September 23, 2005

 

The ICG has also tried, with some success, to paint a gloomy picture of every opportunity of promise and in so doing distorted the facts. There was general agreement – almost unanimous – among Somali legislators on the deployment of African forces. The point of disagreement was only the participation of Ethiopia . The ICG, however, reported that there was strong opposition by ‘powerful war-lords' and it contended that there would be a renewal of the civil war if the troops were deployed in Somalia . The

ICG

in fact has no credibility among Somalis and it is commonplace knowledge that

at least one of their leading ‘experts' is committed to the dismemberment of Somalia

and would not want to see a functioning national government in it. But, IGAD took the ICG to task on the matter of false reporting. I sometimes really wonder whether the ICG is meant to create crises where there are none; they are, as prophets of doom and gloom, the negative force that discourages the international community from coming to the aid of Somalia .

 

Conclusion

 

The World agrees that no one in his right mind would go into Mogadishu thinking that he would be safe.

Both EU and UN missions trying to talk to the war-lords were recently instructed not to go beyond the airport and to return to Nairobi well before nightfall

. Those wreaking havoc in Mogadishu have said in no uncertain terms that they would target the government should it come to the city. The war-lords have taken some militias out of the city but they did not demobilize them and are within call. All efforts by the Mogadishu group to pacify the city and restore peace in it have failed for two reasons: first,

the war-lords themselves have not been sincere as evidenced by the fact that they returned to and maintained their own road blocks

in their previous sites; secondly, they are merely zonal war lords and much of the city is controlled by the so-called Islamists, merchants who have their own private militias, and other war profiteers and criminal elements. All this must, logically, have the effect of settling the question of immediate relocation to Mogadishu .

 

The deployment of African forces has now become

a dead issue

and no one talks about it any more. That being the case the Mogadishu group has only one leg to stand on and, unfortunately for them, this last leg of theirs happens to be an artificial one. It is their use of Ethiopian military involvement as a red herring. These

latter-day ‘nationalists'

want us to believe that Ethiopians violate and occupy Somali territories at will and that President Abdullahi Yusuf is a quisling: they even said they would bring charges of treason against him. But, if Ethiopia has proved to be an enemy violating Somali territory there is all the more reason to support the reconstitution of the Somali Army and close ranks with the group in Jowhar; for this should be the time when internal differences should be shelved away.

 

The war between the two camps is being fought, unabated, on two fronts:

the diplomatic and the propaganda fronts

. Certainly, the Mogadishu camp is winning the latter thanks to the BBC (note for instance how the

BBC completely ignored the visit of the President to New York

as compared with the complete coverage it gave to the visit of the Speaker), and the many radio stations owned and manned by their supporters. The government does not, as yet, have any propaganda machine of its own. But it is leading on the diplomatic front and is likely to succeed – and succeed it must.

 

In my view there is

only one solution available, and that is not a military one

. The two camps are so diametrically opposed that they cannot be both right. Nor, in my view, are they both wrong.

SOURCE: http://www.wardheernews.com/articles/september/23_the_rational.htm

[Camel Mlik]

"The war between the two camps is being fought, unabated, on two fronts: the diplomatic and the propaganda fronts. Certainly, the Mogadishu camp is winning the latter thanks to the BBC (note for instance how the BBC completely ignored the visit of the President to New York as compared with the complete coverage it gave to the visit of the Speaker), and the many radio stations owned and manned by their supporters. The government does not, as yet, have any propaganda machine of its own. But it is leading on the diplomatic front and is likely to succeed – and succeed it must."

 

I so agree.

 

Sometimes I just laugth when listening to BBC becasue it's so Ridicules It’s completly telling one side of the story to the people and that is just wrong Ridicules, Ridicules, Ridicules. People ask why we are so divided even our media is dividing the people who already are divided on the key issue for clan reasons. It's a sad story indeed for 15 million Somalians that have to listen to their bullshit.

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

Waxaa la yaabay markee Dowladii C/qaasin jirtay, waxaan oo dad oo dowlad jeceyl Soomaalinimo eh intee jireen? Ma jiifeen? Ha ogaadaan sidee Dowladaas Carte ugu soo horjeedeen, there are others with same shirt ugu soo horjeedo dowladaan C/llaahi Yuusuf: Clanish mentality. Jug jug meeshaada joog, indeed.

 

Intaa saan ku jirnana adduunka waa naga tagay, meel aa gaareyno ayaa iska yar.

[Alpha-Geeljire]

Waxaa la yaabay markee Dowladii C/qaasin jirtay, waxaan oo dad oo dowlad jeceyl Soomaalinimo eh intee jireen?

Stop seeming soo nieve, you know it's not dowlad jeceyl, it's qabiil jeceyl,as they say on the "REAL WORLD" (MTV), it's time to stop being fake and get real.