Somalia: An African Country or New Vietnam?

In just two weeks, the Somali political world has been turned upside down, bringing ruthless domination and renovation issues into focus for the first time in sixteen years. The Islamist forces that ruled much of the country for the past six months are out. The intermediary federal government, which had been considered totally hopeless by those both at home and overseas, is in. The shocking turnaround is because of thousands of Ethiopian troops still in Somalia who routed the Islamists after Ethiopian officials declared the growing movement a regional threat.



It looks as though Somalia is in need of a new government and is being plagued by warfare on a constant basis. Looks a little bit like Vietnam, don’t you think? Vietnam was faced with wars waging on a daily basis as well, and it eventually resulted in an end to their government issues at the expense of hundreds of thousands of lives. Will Somalia ever gain a stable government: most likely. The real question is how long.