“The U.S. military has staged several attacks on suspected extremists in Somalia over the past year. America has been concerned Somalia could become a breeding ground for terrorist groups, particularly after Islamic militants briefly gained control of the south and al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden declared his support for them.
TheStateOf . . . Somalia. It’s amazing to me that the U.S. can bomb Africa and offer such a hollow, generic excuse - and the American people accept it. “African Americans” sport “Save Darfur” t-shirts around town but don’t even know that the US just bombed a country right down the road.
