I was catching up with a good buddy of Mine who after High School joined the Marines and fought in Iraq. I asked Him since You lived in Somalia during the Civil War, and Iraq is going through turmoil can You compare Iraqis and Somalis? He broke into a 2 minute chuckle. He said putting them in the same sentence is blatantly wrong let alone comparing them. He said, Iraqis will and are rebuilding their Country and have the PhD's, Thinkers, Politicians, Engineers, Doctors, etc. to make it happen. In Somalia our friggin aspiring doctors get blown up on their graduation day. Look at this amazing video talking about the Iraqi Awakening councils on AlJazeera. Aljazeera Has been extremely critical of the US Iraqi presence to the point Where Bush led efforts to get it shut down.
To give a little backround, The insurgants in Iraq who were righting the US, started screwing with the local population in much the same way Shabab does in Somalia. Sunni Arab tribes in Iraq, got fed up and told them to leave, and took charge of their own security.
80,000 Volunteers came together with their guns, and patrolled streets, made their own food, own uniforms, and went about restoring security, without receiving a paycheck and with outside intervention
Think about that. 80,000 Skinnies in Somalia with guns means thousands of isbaaros, pirates, and human smugglers. Really the Human value of Somalis to build and to rise is zero, zilch. This isn't self hating Wallahi, but I feel like I'm speaking the truth.