{"id":61758,"date":"2015-09-08T11:38:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T15:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61758"},"modified":"2015-09-08T12:38:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T16:38:49","slug":"us-opens-embassy-for-somalia-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61758","title":{"rendered":"US opens embassy for Somalia&#8230;in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/u-latest-effort-restore-ties-opens-mission-somalia-140154381.html\">Reuters<\/a> reports the happy news that the United States has bravely reestablished an embassy to reopen diplomatic ties to Somalia. Strangely enough, the mission is in Kenya, which probably doesn&#8217;t help either nation, well except that the US bureaucrats feel better about themselves, and that&#8217;s really all that matters, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;U.S. officials will continue to travel to Somalia to conduct official business as security conditions permit,&#8221; department spokesman John Kirby said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The new mission reflects a continuation of U.S. efforts to normalize the U.S.-Somalia bilateral relationship,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. officials have said they eventually hope to establish the mission in Mogadishu, the Somali capital.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems to me that it&#8217;s waste of money &#8211; embassy officials stationed in Kenya can always travel to Somalia for business there, &#8220;as security conditions permit&#8221;, instead of establishing a whole new mission. And, really, how much diplomatic business will anyone be conducting with the wobbly Somalian government anyway? Conditions in Somalia really haven&#8217;t changed since they closed the embassy there in 1991 when the civil war started and the country became a dangerous place. <\/p>\n<p>The Somalian Embassy in Kenya will just be another terror target in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters reports the happy news that the United States has bravely reestablished an embassy to reopen &hellip; <a title=\"US opens embassy for Somalia&#8230;in Kenya\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61758\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US opens embassy for Somalia&#8230;in Kenya<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61758","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}