Mark Bowden, the UN's humanitarian co-ordinator for the Somalia region, speaking in Nairobi, has warned the food crisis was dramatically worsening in Somalia. The number of people there in need of emergency food aid is likely to rise to about 3.5m in the coming months. After years of Jihad Holy War—mass starvation seems to be the result.
Strange? The Warlords seem to be well fed and fat. They seem to be able to afford guns, bullets, rocket propelled grenades, heavy machine guns, artillery, and even missiles. Doesn’t leave much for food, heh? Never mind, the UN comes to the rescue—and has chosen to do the logistics supplies for the Warlords, enabling the war to continue.
Every army or armed grouping requires logistics—ammunition, weapons, food, water—normally this dictates their ability to fight. Run out of any of those and the fight is lost. Well, that used to be the case. Now, a cry for help to a few well placed civilians in the UN and an NGO will appear, ready to supply your needs. Food supplied from the CAP food mountains, paid for by donations, then sold by the Warlords and combatants in exchange for more weapons and ammunition. In the past, the lack of food caused starvation and was one of the prime reasons a war ended. With the new NGO setup, these ‘do-gooders’ act as quartermasters to the combatants allowing them to spend any money they have on arms. A conflict left without NGOs soon looses its impetus.
There’s Political Correctness in action for you. Humanitarian Relief is a Huge Business. The way of the new liberal world. Sudan and Somalia are the saddest examples of protracted wars fed by Humanitarian Aid. People began to starve and so couldn’t fight. Never mind, Sudan was soon flooded with so-called “Humanitarian Aid,” hyped by the selfish crap musician, Bob Geldof, pruning and prancing about on the world stage, encouraged by that wannabe pop musician, Tony Blair. Sudan 1985—2008, through famine and onto Darfur. All it did was to fuel Islamofascism. Al-Turabi personally invited Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda mob to Sudan enabling bin Dustbin to move to Sudan in 1991. Result—The Darfur Catastrophe. Wars that would have petered out, have become protracted with all the free aid coming in from the 40 NGO Aid Agencies working in Somalia.
