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The Ethiopians drove the Islamist warlords out of the Somali capital of Mogadishu a couple weeks ago, and have now thrown their support behind the so-called “Transitional Federal Government.”
As I mention on my new blog, the TFG is a gang of mostly-western educated and funded Somali exiles with high ambitions of installing a democratic, pluralistic government in their former homeland. Until recently, the grim irony has been that Somalia itself has been too hostile to even let them safely enter the country, let alone the capital city.
But with the ouster of the Islamists and the recapture of the capital, the TFG is nominally “in power” and the western world seems more on their side than ever. The US has even started bombing Somalia to drive the Islamists even further out, in the first US-African bombings in over a dozen years.
