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...fact of the matter is that we did have to drag the UN in--we forced their hand by insisting that we would pull out relatively quickly no matter what--and perhaps we could have done a better job rebuilding the Somali state by ourselves. But this is precisely why it is encouraging that we were able to shirk the role of world leader and become one power among many. American hubris has doomed many a plan, and some rationality is nice for a change...
...Somali civil war receives a vastly different characterization. Gone is the World War II language, and instead the warlords are described as "petulant children" (The New York Times...
Arroyo's death dramatized the continuing violence in Somalia. Much of it was directed against U.S. forces under orders to confiscate numerous arms caches controlled by Somali warlords, but others are caught in the middle. The International Red Cross suspended operations after one of its officials was killed by robbers in Bardera. At week's end leaders of 14 feuding Somali factions meeting in Ethiopia agreed to a cease-fire at home. But word of the stand-down had still not reached Mogadishu, where gunfire continued to sound routinely. At least 100,000 Somalis still carry weapons...
...last week's diplomatic developments. His supporters were widely believed to have organized a stone-throwing demonstration against the visit of United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to Mogadishu. The warlord was equally obstreperous at the start of a U.N.-sponsored meeting involving no fewer than 14 feuding Somali factions, held in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa. But he and other participants eventually agreed to a cease-fire scheduled to take effect this week and a formal "reconciliation conference" in March...
...friendlier at his next stop, Mogadishu. The Secretary- General was forced to flee to a U.S. Marine compound after U.N. headquarters was surrounded by a raucous mob that hurled rocks and garbage. When Boutros-Ghali traveled on to Addis Ababa for the opening of peace talks among Somali faction leaders, Ethiopian demonstrators gathered to protest alleged U.N. support for the secession of the province of Eritrea...