[davidboyd] Cool Papa Boyd: Victory!

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Posted by Cool Papa Boyd:
Victory!
http://davidboyd.org/posts/1167769646.shtml


   [1]Bowden:

     Nine years ago, in the epilogue to "Black Hawk Down," I quoted an
     unnamed State Department official (he was Michael Sheehan,
     ambassador for counter-terrorism) as follows: "The idea used to be
     that terrible countries were terrible because good, decent,
     innocent people were being oppressed by evil, thuggish leaders.
     Somalia changed that. Here you have a country where just about
     everybody is caught up in the fighting. You stop an old lady on the
     street and ask her if she wants peace, and she will say, 'Yes, of
     course, I pray for it daily.' All the things you would expect her
     to say. Then ask her if she would be willing for her clan to share
     power with another to have that peace, and she'll say, 'With those
     murderers and thieves? I'd die first.' People in these countries .
     . . don't want peace. They want victory. They want power.

References

   1. http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009466