the chief heyna was already in the presedential palace.[/quote]
yes except history is our only arbiter. Somalis can't have it both ways.
If Somalia improved post-Siad then you know very well would have heard a lot about how Siad Barre was dragging the country down and an example of better people could do.
As for the post-77 breakdown, this is something characteristic of hyenas to attack when you're weakest and it's something they did which probably forced a war of attrition btwn M Siad Barre back and forth.
Now though he is used as an scapegoat after all these groups failed their people miserably and their true colors came out. I'm not saying there weren't legitimate grievances, but those legitimate grievances of the average person were hijacked by the political elites of each tribe and they used the average person.
As for Siad Barre using tribes against each other, that is absolutely ridiculous tribal warfare and animosity is not something he taught the Somali people, it was something ingrained in people and he succeeded in pacifying it for a while.
You could compare Somalia post-91 to post-Saddam Iraq. It's becoming clearer that Saddam Hussein despite all his flaws was one of the only things that was holding the country together. I don't even think Saddam was that bad but he didn't do a well enough job of containing his subordinates who terrorized the people, but that is so impossible for 1 person to do.
The violence he was forced to commit seems almost necessarily now to avoid the kind of bloodbath Iraq is seeing now. Interesting parallels.
Aw252,
Sxb you can't be taken seriously
b/c you contradict yourself from 1 wk to another..........1 week you are cursing the '60s "Musuq Masuq" and the next week you are trying to praise it.......you are so politically opportunist it's not even funny 
