{"id":112203,"date":"2021-04-03T14:15:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T18:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=112203"},"modified":"2021-04-03T18:09:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T22:09:31","slug":"somalia-nothing-has-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=112203","title":{"rendered":"Somalia&#8230;. Nothing Has Changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pswp__img aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/im-media.voltron.voanews.com\/Drupal\/01live-166\/styles\/sourced\/s3\/2019-11\/ap_shabab2.jpg?itok=YPpuM8y3\" width=\"355\" height=\"268\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">FILE &#8211; Al-Shabab fighters march during military exercises in the Lafofe area, some 18 kilometers (11 miles) south of Mogadishu, Somalia, Feb. 17, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Somalia\u2026. Mogadishu\u2026. Weren\u2019t we there once, on some kind of mission that backfired, a while back? And nothing has really changed since we left.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/africa\/al-shabab-attacks-military-bases-southern-somalia\">https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/africa\/al-shabab-attacks-military-bases-southern-somalia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the article:\u00a0 The militant group Al-Shabab has launched attacks on Somali military forces in Lower Shabelle region, Somali regional officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks in the early hours of Saturday, around 4 a.m. local time, targeted military bases in the towns of Barire and Awdhegle in southern Somalia. The forward operating bases are manned by the Somali military to protect several bridges along the Shabelle river that authorities say are key to keeping vehicles carrying explosives from entering Mogadishu. Attacks started off with suicide car bombs on both bases, followed by infantry attack, regional officials said. \u2013 article<\/p>\n<p>I will not take bets on how long it will be before we&#8217;re lining up to send our own over there on a useless mission that fixes nothing and ends in unneeded tragedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE &#8211; Al-Shabab fighters march during military exercises in the Lafofe area, some 18 kilometers (11 &hellip; <a title=\"Somalia&#8230;. Nothing Has Changed\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=112203\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Somalia&#8230;. Nothing Has Changed<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,430],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-2020-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112229,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112203\/revisions\/112229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}