Destabilizing the Horn of Africa

Bush's Somalia Strategy Enables an Ethiopian Despot, says The Nation. "Here in the Horn of Africa, as elsewhere, Washington is all too happy to overlook the undemocratic excesses of a dictator who will do its bidding in the war on terror. And in Destabilizing The Horn, Salim Lone writes, Clan warlords, who terrorized Somalia until they were driven out by the Islamists, and who were put back in power by the US-backed and -trained Ethiopian army, have begun carving up the country once again.