Ethiopia and The Horn Of Africa - Political Forum

CHUQ · #1 (**permalink**) 06-29-2007, 06:27 AM

Did thye US orchestrate this war? sounds like their tactic.

NAIROBI, June 28 -- Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said Thursday that his government "made a wrong political calculation" when it intervened in Somalia, where Ethiopian troops are bogged down in a fight against a growing insurgency.

Addressing Ethiopia's Parliament, Meles said his government incorrectly assumed that breaking up the Islamic movement that took control of most of Somalia in June 2006 would subdue the country. He also said he wrongly believed that Somali clan leaders would live up to unspecified "promises."

"We made these wrong assumptions," Meles said on a day when a roadside bomb killed two Ethiopian soldiers in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, and two aid workers were shot dead in northern Somalia.

Ethiopian Premier Admits Errors on Somalia - washingtonpost.com

CHUQ · #2 (**permalink**) 06-29-2007, 06:29 AM

Who is planning the direction of the Horn? Any of this sound familiar to anyone?

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia is making military preparations for any possible invasion by arch-foe and neighbour Eritrea, with whom it fought a devastating border war in 1998-2000, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Thursday.

"It is deemed necessary to make the necessary military preparation for deterring a possible Eritrean invasion and to repulse such an invasion should it occur," Meles told parliament.

Ethiopia says preparing for any Eritrean invasion - Yahoo! News UK

Brother Oz · #3 (**permalink**) 06-29-2007, 10:54 AM

It's a well known fact that Ethiopia was encouraged to invade Somalia by the US, but it did make sense for them to do so, politically and militarily, they weren't forced into it.

CHUQ · #4 (**permalink**) 06-30-2007, 05:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Brother Oz

It's a well known fact that Ethiopia was encouraged to invade Somalia by the US, but it did make sense for them to do so, politically and militarily, they weren't forced into it.

Aren't both encouagement and force styles of persuasion?

Brother Oz · #5 (**permalink**) 06-30-2007, 08:34 AM

Oh of course, I just mean that America didn't make them do it.

CHUQ · #6 (**permalink**) 06-30-2007, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Brother Oz

Oh of course, I just mean that America didn't make them do it.

I realize that you were saying and there was no prob with you post--all I want to say is that I think they were "made" to attack. No, I have no proof but I am researching it.