Monday, May 1, 2023

Khartoum worse than Mogadishu

Remember Black Hawk Down? That movie was based on a battle between US troops and local militias in 1993 Mogadishu, capital of Somalia. Thirty years later, US troops are still there. Still bringing freedom and human rights. Things still not getting better. No matter how many bad guys we eliminate, there's always more. Mogadishu is a non-stop cavalcade of terror attacks, random bombings, political assassinations, and all-round mayhem. So I was taken aback to see, on Al Jazeera News, a busload of Somalis, who had been evacuated from Khartoum, ecstatic to be safely back in Mogadishu! That's how bad things are in Sudan! I was further taken aback that a sad-sack third-world country like Somalia can successfully evacuate its citizens from Sudan, while Canada cannot. That's how bad things are in Canada!

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