[Marxism] Abandoned by the World: UN Declares Open Season on Somalia

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Empire Burlesque - Chris Floyd
 
 
Abandoned  by the World: UN Declares Open Season on Somalia  
Posted:  17 Dec 2008 06:57 AM PST 
 
With this resolution, the entire  world â the entire world â has turned its 
back on the people of Somalia. They  have been abandoned as utterly, 
completely â and officially -- as any people  in history. 
clip -- 
We  reported here last week about American plans to turn Somalia into a 
global  free-fire zone, with powerful militaries from around the world given 
carte  
blanche to launch armed incursions into Somali territory and fill the 
nation's  skies with bombers, fighters and missiles. This nightmare scenario 
--- an  
unlimited escalation of bloodshed and destruction in one of the most ravaged,  
shattered lands on earth â has now become a reality, as the  Washington Post 
reports:  


The UN Security Council voted  unanimously Tuesday to authorize nations to 
conduct military raids, on land  and by air, against pirates plying the waters 
off the Somalia coast... The  U.S.-drafted resolution authorizes nations to 
"use all necessary measures that  are appropriate in Somalia" in pursuit of 
pirates, as long as they are  approved by the country's transitional federal 
government. 


The provision about the "approval" of the Somalia's "transitional federal  
government" is, of course, a cynical joke on the part of the Security Council.  
This so-called government â put in place by foreign invaders, riddled with  
warlords and paid CIA assets â has not only lost control of virtually the 
entire 
 country; it  is now in the process of completely disintegrating. In the past 
few days,  the Somali president, Abdullahi Yusuf, dismissed Prime Minister 
Nur Hassan  Hussein and appointed someone else in his place, as  Reuters 
reports. The Somali parliament rejected Yusuf's move and reinstated  Hussein, 
who met 
this week with his cabinet. 

Now there are two  "transitional governments," neither of which have any 
genuine authority or  power. In the unlikely event that one of these 
Western-installed paper entities  raises an objection to an incursion on their 
soil by 
foreign forces in pursuit  of alleged pirates (or anyone the foreigners 
arbitrarily designate as a  "pirate"), then the other one can give the required 
"permission" instead. But as  the Security Council well knows, it is 
inconceivable 
that any incarnation of the  "Transitional Federal Government" will prevent any 
major power from doing  whatever it wants in Somalia. 
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