lover8 wrote:james

did you support TFG??
When it first formed I thought it was kind of a stupid idea (wasn't something like the 4.5 formula pretty much responsible for all the corruption and inaction of democratic Somalia from 1960 to 1969?) and they were kind of a joke as they couldn't find a capital and kept moving from town to town.
Like most people I was unaware of exactly how involved Ethiopia was in the creation and establishment of the TFG and thought it was a fairly elected government, it wasn't until much later I found out the circumstances of the conference in Kenya and how exactly they established their base in Baidoa.
It was honestly a shock when Ethiopia crossed the border, and people did nothing to stop them. It was only then, having understood the situation well at the time, that I understood how the Muslim world must have felt when Iraq was invaded.
You should know that I have followed closely A/Y's policy moves since in office, and they have all involved filling his pockets with Chinese money and preventing people from investigating him for corruption. This was quite easy to do as the rest of the TFG is far too busy yelling at each other and throwing chairs at each other and screaming, defecting to other countries, and having each other assassinated to bother getting around to investigating A/Y's misdeeds.
The TFG's ultimate and most resounding failure was when, having been handed the whole south on a silver platter by the Ethiopian military, their opponents cowed, the clan leaders terrified, the Islamist fleeing across the border and absolute and total victory basically just given to them, they managed to piss it all away.
They squabbled and fought amongst themselves and didn't even seem to notice when the Islamists crept back across the border and established bases. They were not perturbed when the clan leaders began growing another pair of balls and telling the government to go to hell, and re-taking the countryside only to be then reconquered by the Islamists. They were much to busy with their stupid infighting and pathetic squabbles to notice that they were losing more and more territory until today they are basically back where they started out from.
It's pathetic. Somalis should be ashamed that this government is the one that is internationally recognized. It's a national disgrace.