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Re: Donors step up ties with Somalia; praise rebuilding efforts

Willy Truth — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:31:21 GMT

Bogart:

I agree, I've made the same argument/defense of Somalia's statelessness being that it's a battleground for proxy wars.

However, the response is: "Well, realistically, doesn't the lack of a state create a power vacuum that will invariably lead to outside interference from nearby states, preventing Somalia (or any stateless society) from establishing its own economic infrastructure or, consequently, a privately funded defense system?"

Re: Donors step up ties with Somalia; praise rebuilding efforts

Meistro — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 06:22:36 GMT

yarrr

Re: Donors step up ties with Somalia; praise rebuilding efforts

Bogart — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 05:08:42 GMT

I still can not get anyone to respond to my simple request that if the entire world leaves Somalia alone for 10 years. After that time if Somalia is not the fastest and most rapidly developing country in Africa then go ahead and give them the blessings of central government and its force and violence. Everybody knows that left alone, Somalia will become a haven for entrepreneurs, it is now, and start attracting foreign investors. In the past several years the US Government has sponsored at least two invasions and in the previous century conducted one invasion on its own.

Re: Donors step up ties with Somalia; praise rebuilding efforts

excel — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:11:51 GMT

I don't understand why some libertarians fetishise Somalia.

Yeah, because every fucking time it's libertarians who bring up somalia.

Re: Donors step up ties with Somalia; praise rebuilding efforts

Consumariat — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 06:47:43 GMT

I don't understand why some libertarians fetishise Somalia. Just because there's no central government it doesn't mean there aren't opressive power structures and illegitimate uses of force. Is a patchwork of warlords, pirates, and jihadi sects really such a wonderful place? Is that really what constitutes statelessness?

Donors step up ties with Somalia; praise rebuilding efforts

shackleford — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 02:23:11 GMT

All I got from this article was that central government is the solution.

http://news.yahoo.com/donors-step-ties-somalia-praise-rebuilding-efforts-004311169.html