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No One Could Have Predicted…

… that having the United States of America assist an Ethiopan invasion-and-occupation of Somalia in order to depose an Islamist government could further radicalize Somalis and push them into the arms of al-Qaeda. After all, most people welcome foreign invasions of their country.

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