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Originally Posted by QuasiMondo
This sounds like Six-Degrees-of-America where you're trying to trace international piracy back to something the U.S. did or failed to do in Somalia and I'm not buying it. If you want somebody to blame for Africa's decline, blame European colonialism before you blame American 'imperialism'
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Of course colonialism has left a much worse legacy in the region. But the division of Somalia and Ethiopia, and the ensuing wars between Soviet backed Ethiopia and west backed Somalia, all happened with direct participation of the United States at the outset of the second world war. In fact, it was only because of US support that the division of the region turned out the way it did, and that was what set up years of upcoming war and civil war over contested regions of Somalia.