I agree with Dana, if those of the “religion of peace” wants to stop a war, get out of our country go back to yours and pick up a weapon.

It is tragic what Islam is doing to Africa. It is such a beautiful place, and as MD exhibits, infects people with such a love of place. I have prayed for the people of Sudan for 15 years now. I never forget them in my prayers, hoping that there will eventually be some relief for them.

I was very happy that Ethiopia decided to help the people of Somalia and kick out these invaders. I pray that Kenya will be able to handle these evil men if they decide to move south. – Lorica

Really good news coming from Somalia in the War on Terror this week. The events in Somalia are critically important, much more relevant than the execution of Saddam Hussein which is commanding everyone’s attention.

I saw it in the Democrats’ and the MSM’s general reaction to the genocide in Rwanda while it was at its peak in 1994. For these folks (I am now officially off-topic), Rwanda was just a case of black Africans killing black Africans – in their eyes a normal state of affairs that did not trouble them unduly. I find much of the recent media fascination with Rwanda both hypocritical and tardy – where were they in 1994, when it might have done some good?

Oddly enough, I’ve hardly heard a peep from all the “anti-war” protestors. Where are all the celebrities enraged about loss of life and the overthrow of a nation. Oh, that’s right, it’s only when the U.S. is involved that their morality compels them to speak out.

The problem was “solved” by first the Kenyan army and later the Tanzanian army conducting military maneuvers to disperse the bandits. This scared the locals who had shielded the Somali bandits to turn them out. But what it really meant was that the bandits just went somewhere else or blended into the local population for good.

I wonder if something similar will happen now. It frightens me that an area that I still think of as home – and that has so many family members on my wife’s side living there – might see a rise in Islamofascism from these Somali terrorists.

IMO both the governments of Tanzania and Kenya, while stable, are weak and (in the case of Tanzania at least) horribly inefficient and corrupt. Both countries have large Muslim populations concentrated in certain geographic areas, and both were locations of the US embassies that were bombed in 1998. With enough internal pressure, one or both could collapse suddenly.

While the Islamists may make good on their pledge to fight an Iraq-style insurgency in Somalia, they may also move south to possible easier pickings. This is both my wife’s and my own personal nightmare.