Yes.....a competent govt would have a policy of targeting the top command of a terrorist group.
However, this Farmaajo regime is unable to escort children across the road safely.
Therefore the only alternative is to sue for peace with AS.......in order to stop the senseless slaughter of civilians and officials..
Because Al Shabaab is a legitimate state actor, even merely just a legitimate political insurgency instead of a transnational terrorist group right?
Let me guess, you read about the rumours of Trump's possible Camp David talks with the Taliban and this is where you think this is possible in Somalia with Al Shabaab?
News Flash; the Taliban is not considered a "terrorist group" by the US nor has it ever been considered a transnational terrorist group like Al Qaeda, ISIS, Al Shabaab, Boko Haram, etc..
Even in the very beginning of the war back in 2001-2002 when the US was more ignorant about the situation and was fighting and looked like it was defeating both the Taliban and Al Qaeda; even then the gung-ho Bush Administration saw the difference between Taliban and Al Qaeda and never called the Taliban a terrorist group. It has always been considered a "politically insurgency" with legitimate aspirations of ruling Afghanistan.
The Taliban was once labeled a terrorist group by the UN---back in 1998 when they refused to give up Bin Laden. Our understanding of terrorism today shows how ancient and not very sophisticated that understanding of terrorism was.
Even the UN, despite their folly for that earlier designation, came to realize the difference. Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, Shabab, ISIS, Jabhat Nusra, The Mghreb, rtcetc rtc all share one designation. The Taliban isn't part of it.
THE AFGHAN TALIBAN HAVE NEVER CARRIED OUT A SINGLE ACTION LET ALONE AN ATTACK OUTSIDE OF AFGHANISTAN.
The Taliban does not have any blood on their hands outside of Afghanistan. They have not killed a single innocent person from the world except casualties of their war inside Afghanistan.
Shabab on the other hand has the blood of innocent people from approximately 17 different countries just from that Nairobi mall attack.
This is before you bring in all their other attacks like the bombings on Kenyan resorts, the attack in Kampala, and before we get to all the innocent Somalis of which the most recent was in Kismaayo with Hodan Nalayeh.
Sue for peace? With WHOM? Do they even want to sit in front of you?
And even if they wanted to talk to you, unlike Taliban being an Afghan issue, Shabab is not.
Shabaab ceased to be a Somali issue onmy when it declared war on the world and killed innocent people from dozens of countries.
Somalia cannot therefore singlehandedly bestow legitimacy to Shabaab; it has to share that with all the countries of the world who hold them responsible for killing one of their own.
Before you can even get there; again, do they even want to sit in front of you.
Sue for peace ku lahaa.
