xRobot: African Union urges UN to help Somalia - 24 Jul 08 Videos

conduit99 Says:

Jul 24, 2008 - jerkinp, you forgot about the U.S. arming Ethiopia, training them, doing airstrikes, sending special forces troops, giving major logistical aid--satillite imagery and tacitally approving their illegal invasion. But aside from that you're right.

aquamammal Says:

Jul 25, 2008 - The very way religion operates is the manipulation of the masses. For instance, sexism. Our very language is sexist. "'Man' twisting religion," we are humans, not just men. Yet, most religions want us to believe that in the beginning, "god made man". Fuck that. Teach all religions in schools. So children will be able to see clearly that they are all the same bullshitte.XVX for life, R.A.S.H. 'til death.

proudnijagirl Says:

Jul 25, 2008 - The UN will never come. They will never send any troops. How many Africa War has AU asked them to help fight, did they ignore. This is Sierra Leone over again. Pls.And AU may be badly equipped but they are some strong men after all AU are the ones who stopped almost every single African War. UN, pls isn't this the same thing the UN said when they asked for their help during the Sierra Leone war. I support AU, but i don't support UN.

hamada20015 Says:

Jul 30, 2008 - we love ethiopia

Dobinhom Says:

Jul 31, 2008 - are you talking about somalian history?i never heard of somalian history.the only history of somalia is war and death.

Dobinhom Says:

Jul 31, 2008 - why is somalia blaming us and ethiopia for thierfucking problem? Ethiopia or US didn't create the problem in ur country.they are helping your ass to get out of terrorism. shut the fuck up and move your ass up out of America.

Jhosephneo Says:

Jul 31, 2008 - Brazil is a volunteer mission of peace in Somalia would like to join the mission if any.

HistoryMajor7 Says:

Aug 2, 2008 - Not really, its colonial, economic, environmental, and warfare history among others (not one single factor can explain the whole story). And it tries to explain the reasons behind all the war and death. It is extremely complicated and I'm still trying to figure it out-right now I'm going through the economics and environmental portion of world history- another good way to find out a little about it is to take a Geography course which is a standard GE course for a lot of majors.

HistoryMajor7 Says:

Aug 2, 2008 - Also there are other factors involved (too many to list), but the whole war and death part is happening right now in other parts of the world such as Chechnya, Ireland (not to long ago the IRA stopped, though), Southwest Asia i.e. Middle East, Pakistan, Mexico increasingly with the drug war, etc. too many to list. The patterns of a majority of conflict zones lie in portions of former colonies. I am not saying that that was the only reason, but it played a key role in contribuing to them.

HistoryMajor7 Says:

Aug 2, 2008 - The best way I could phrase it is that the right ingredients were put in place in order to create a recipe for disaster, the hard part is that future generations (in other words, our generation and by ours I mean everyone on this planet) inherited this problem and we are trying to figure out the ingredients that created this recipe in the first place, in addition to figuring out how to develop a solution out of the minutia of complex factors.

HistoryMajor7 Says:

Aug 2, 2008 - I went on a rant. To answer your question directly is that the reason you do not see any Somalian history is that many tribes transferred their histories orally through stories and when they were colonized their history was replaced with that of Western histories. If you look at former colonies they were educated on Western standards, in other words, they didn't learn their history, but the history of their colonizers and their history was lost, although not totally lost.

HistoryMajor7 Says:

Aug 2, 2008 - Also, their history was either destroyed, as many conquerors do, or they were taken when millions were taken through the trans-Atlantic and trans-Indian slave trade and lost their history that way. And the reason you only see war and death in Somalia's history is because that is all the media is interested in showing, and in their eyes, death gets ratings. Think about it, if I kept showing you war in Russia, that would be all you would think is there since that is all you have to go on.

eskinder3870 Says:

Aug 2, 2008 - At this junction, only Somalians can save Somalia. Outside government already tried to help but they were greeted with guns instead of open arms. It is up to Somalians to step-up, shed their clan mentality, spit out outside extremist groups and strife themselves to live peacefully with each other and neighboring countries. Otherwise, their county will continue to be a war ravaged country and a play ground of religious fanatic Arabs.

mahdi215 Says:

Aug 2, 2008 - Dobinhom dumb ass dude shut the fuck up and learn a thing or two about the topic in which you are talking about. We Somali's don't need you to help us out of anything, leave our country alone and we'll be fine just like we were before your dumb ass countries came to our country. Don't force yourself on us we don't want your ass,oh we helping you yeah right get the fuck out of our land man and stay out

Afgooyee Says:

Aug 4, 2008 - Too sad to see my country in this state. very very sad. we have been killing each other for long time now. our pple r dying nite and day for what? our country is destroyed beyond repair i hope those in the useless mission come to their senses. so far we seen nothing but suffer and death. we somalis became easy target for those who dont like us and unwanted nation coz no one like us and i dont blame them. we dont like each other so how others would like us?

omali13 Says:

Aug 4, 2008 - Dobinhom did we ask your help? You're fucking dickhead. GET THE FUCK OUT FROM OUR COUNTRY.

mcshotgun96 Says:

Aug 5, 2008 - We did try to help you in 1992-94 but were pushed out by guys like Aidid. It's hard to ask other countries to go in and help after that. Though I do wish peace for your people.

mcshotgun96 Says:

Aug 5, 2008 - Even though there were colonial powers at work in Africa, I think it is disengenous to blame Europe or white people for Africa's problems. Somalia is clanish, and is used by Islamic extremists as a holiday of war.

HistoryMajor7 Says:

Aug 6, 2008 - I disagree, over 90% of locations where there was colonial rule by Western powers have decimated economies. Race did play a large role in colonialism, to say that it didn't is obscene. They were scene as inferior and it was looked at as paternal to take power. Their resources were taken, their education was taken, and the reason was maintained was to improve the transport of resources. Yes race played a role. Yes colonialism was a key role in decimating their economies.

HistoryMajor7 Says:

Aug 6, 2008 - Yes, there is indeed internal corruption civil war and corruption in Africa (as well as aid workers and politicians trying to "help"). Yes, religion, race, and ethnicity on both sides play a key role in stirring this up. But what is key is looking back at the percentage of previous Western colononized nations you see a pattern of economic retardation. If I were a business man in charge of businesses and over 90% of those businesses collapsed what would you think about my business skills?...

HistoryMajor7 Says:

Aug 6, 2008 - I caught a typo where I stated "and the reason was maintained was to improve the transport of resources" I accidentally ommitted infrastructure so the sentence was "and the reason their infrastructure was maintained was to improve the transport of resources."

HistoryMajor7 Says:

Aug 6, 2008 - And to in response to "...is used by Islamic extremists as a holiday of war." (mcshotgun96). "The waves of terrorist attacks by Islamic extremists that swept across the West highlighted the fact that large parts of the Muslim world had been in social and economic decline for decades and the West could ignore this trend only at its peril." -Jeffry A. Frieden (Harvard Univ. Professor), "Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century" (W.W. Norton & Company: New York, 2006 p.456)

HistoryMajor7 Says:

Aug 6, 2008 - Also, you have environmental/economic factors which made it extremely difficult. For example, over 90% of the population in Africa during the post-colonial era were unskilled farmers and in order to compete with the industrialized world they had to industrialize which contributed to the decimation, but looking back at the colonial breakeup of the 1940s-1970s that gave them little time to catch up with resources that were already depleted. That's like giving a stick to a person in a gun fight.

HistoryMajor7 Says:

Aug 6, 2008 - Moreover, those resources taken went to the West. On a final note, I am not talking out of spite or meer ignorance. This was years of research, reading, analyzing, and synthesizing put together by credentialed scholars and P.H.D's there is no doubt in my mind that colonization played a key role and to say that my theory is disingenuous is a bit far-fetched. I will never deny that other factors played a large role in this, but do not just look at the "what" but also the "how" and "why"

HistoryMajor7 Says:

Aug 6, 2008 - One last thing I forgot to mention about the portion about their infrastructure, it wasn't structured or built well because the colonial powers did not work together and did not want to connect their empires.