In order to quell this rather annoying spirit of theirs, I think the only solution is to show them the strong hand, Buhoodle is a perfect place for that.
You must be wondering how did the Sayid get these people to shake their booty for him even 100 years later, the answer is, he showed them the strong hand, he initially treated them like a bitch and took their xoolo as much as he wanted, they were so afraid they sent their sons to fight for him.
We should not have a policy of bribing their leaders, the only way to deliver the message is to demoralise them by showing them superior strength right before their eyes.
So in Buhoodle you have a small militia, 5,000 somaliland troops with artillery should be able to destroy their heavy weapons, and then publicly arrest their soldiers and execute them.
I can see this if bixi becomes president.
Thtas the absolute worst thing that we can do.
They are currently divided and demoralized and are starting to consider their options seriously.
In the mean time you have their worst clannists praying for us to do exactly that. real violence against them.
This will energize and unite them, if we treat them with kid gloves and court them we win.
If afweyne treated us the same we would still be under his rule or the rule of his son today.
An Eeydoor that understands the game. Clearly a united Dhulbahante (let alone Harti, or even Daarood) is a major threat to Isaaq, forget about a single Eeydoor sub-clan. That being said, Jaalle Siyaad's government fell due to inter-Daarood rivalry and the whole Daarood vs Hawiye catastrophe that took place. If Isaaq really had anything to do with it, you wouldn't have lost Burco and Hargeisa after seizing it for few weeks with the full military and financial support of Ethiopia and other world powers. lol
The Kacaan collapsed because of Daarood and Hawiye, the two largest Somali clans. Their unity can break or make Somalia.
You like living in your own fantasy land.
Afweynes regime lost because of his obsession with Isaaq, 3/4 of the entire armed forces where in the north.
After 1989 he should have realized that that been 8 years and he still has no control over the north, only burco and hargiesa and berbera. With the USC and SPM forming logic would dictate that the only winning move was to pull all forces out of hargiesa and burco, and reinforce berbera and shiekh. The SNM did not have the equipment to take on an entrenched force, but were easily suffocating and starving the army in burco. Arm dhulos , warsengli and gadabursi then move most of the army back to xamar.
In 1990 USC found the way to xamar wide open, the tiny forces left in the south were easily manhandled and they just walked to xamar with little opposition.
Thank god for afweynes blind obsession with fighting isaaq .
Imagine if he made the right moves? We would still be fighting in the late 90's and the government would have probably fallen by 2001 instead of 1991.
