Indhacadde, for all the rediclues around him, is a fighter. Not a teaser like you, NG!

Haa ee adiga qaska hargeisay kuugu baxdaa soo ma'aha? Mida kale intii aan xanuunsanayeey maxaad ii sii caayaysay eed wuu waashay u lahayd? Inagoo saaxiib ah yaa iigu danbeysaye waa maxay daba marku? EDIT: The reconstructed NSS man - Riyaale yaa ku soo kala jiireeyay baaqigii!

Originally posted by Emperor: What is the point of using such BIG guns against the unarmed demonstrators. The whole scene put a question mark on the whole idea of the over-rated peace in SL. War Emperor soo kii aad Xaafadaha Xamar BM ka lagu garaaco aad taageersaneyd??????? Selective humanity iga dheh!

Mascherano is top for what? for reckless tackles and qiiro-Japaan? For being sent out at crucial matches? That guy should leave Anfield. liverpool needs strong midfield player [a passer], and one more top attack. And a central defence. Alonso is on the decline, he should go too.

Big fadhi-ku-dirir, iyo wax aanaan sheegayn. Laakiin, it has all kinds of intersting people. From the weird [me] to the wise- oday XINN. Ngonge is from Mars. It is not bad, I would say.

Originally posted by xiinfaniin: Now the cyber warriors reference you are protesting is directed at the likes of A & T. It’s a correct label for those who live in the west quite comfortably yet find any hint of compromise in Somali conflict a dreadful thing! It’s as though they think this Somali conflict will in the end produce a winner, and the contest will be ended! In their mind, victory is around the corner! So why bother with peace talks? Any protest against this label as it regards to these folks has no merit. First of all, I don't live in the west. Second, Xinn is a difficult man to debate with. The moving target analogy works with him. You construct your own version of other's statements and start deconstructing. Who said the widening of the war must be limited to Somalia only? Haven't I suggested supporting gropus who are already fighting in Ethiopia? Some materially (where visible), others by providing safe passages and money. Should would do that inevitable job now or prolong the misery with the assumption that your mystic Peace mission will somehow deliver!! Adeer peace comes out of the muzzle of a Gun. And even the limited talks you had in Djibouti are the result of Alshabab's fighting back. Who would have bothered about talking to Shariif or anyone else if there were not a daring resistance. I think you discredit that part of the story. Third, is your myopia. Two years in a life of struggle is too short. How do you catagorically declare it a success or a failure what the Muqaawamaa had achieved? A decade is the right time to assess a liberation struggle! However long it may seem for you. Beerka jecli, Xaydha jecli la iskuma helayo adeer. This is not circus, it is war with all the consequent collateral damage and heart-breaks. For you to love peace more than me is unjust, on a personal level. For in a span of 1 year [from june 2007] I witnessed the killing of two uncles (abti and adeer), the sentencing to 22 years of a close friend, the sentencing to death of 2 collegues, to name only the family cases. My younger and older brothers are both languishing in Ethiopian prisions in Zeway (central Ethiopia). And I see all this loss as a process to the bigger picture:freedom. For it is not only my family that is losing their darlings. So, there is no way you will accuse me of in comfort! Adeer, stop dividing the opinion of the people and let us see what a wholehearted support to the struggle can achieve. Easy with throwing around labels!

Originally posted by xiinfaniin: Now the cyber warriors reference you are protesting is directed at the likes of A & T. It’s a correct label for those who live in the west quite comfortably yet find any hint of compromise in Somali conflict a dreadful thing! It’s as though they think this Somali conflict will in the end produce a winner, and the contest will be ended! In their mind, victory is around the corner! So why bother with peace talks? Any protest against this label as it regards to these folks has no merit. First of all, I don't live in the west. Second, Xinn is a difficult man to debate with. The moving target analogy works with him. You construct your own version of other's statements and start deconstructing. Who said the widening of the war must be limited to Somalia only? Haven't I suggested supporting gropus who are already fighting in Ethiopia? Some materially (where visible), others by providing safe passages and money. Should would do that inevitable job now or prolong the misery with the assumption that your mystic Peace mission will somehow deliver!! Adeer peace comes out of the muzzle of a Gun. And even the limited talks you had in Djibouti are the result of Alshabab's fighting back. Who would have bothered about talking to Shariif or anyone else if there were not a daring resistance. I think you discredit that part of the story. Third, is your myopia. Two years in a life of struggle is too short. How do you catagorically declare it a success or a failure what the Muqaawamaa had achieved? A decade is the right time to assess a liberation struggle! However long it may seem for you. Beerka jecli, Xaydha jecli la iskuma helayo adeer. This is not circus, it is war with all the consequent collateral damage and heart-breaks. For you to love peace more than me is unjust, on a personal level. For in a span of 1 year [from june 2007] I witnessed the killing of two uncles (abti and adeer), the sentencing to 22 years of a close friend, the sentencing to death of 2 collegues, to name only the family cases. My younger and older brothers are both languishing in Ethiopian prisions in Zeway (central Ethiopia). And I see all this loss as a process to the bigger picture:freedom. For it is not only my family that is losing their darlings. So, there is no way you will accuse me of in comfort! Adeer, stop dividing the opinion of the people and let us see what a wholehearted support to the struggle can achieve. Easy with throwing around labels!

Did anyone mentioned Butaaco LaJecel Nooc Macdaaro Kaaha Naadis Aragsan Ugbaad Or Gurxan Dinaase Qalombi Dubad Qaybdiid Saleeye Dharaar Warmahaye Cirguje Abtidoon

Is WAR not tangible? Yaa Malika. Dialogue between who and who? I think you are putting the cart before the horse, to use that tired cliche. Dialogue will come after occpation forces are dealt with. Now that it is clear a section of us [alshabab, and the ARS] are determined to continue the fight, is supporting them not part of the process to develop consensus? Haday iyagu goosteen inay dagaalka wadaan, without them na aan rajo laga qabin nabadgalyo dhacda, why not support them so that the time for suffering is shortened. Malika et al's lamentations of me as a dreamer comes from an understaniding that the challenges ahead, mainly that of Ethiopia, are so insurmountable with blood and iron that anything else would be preferable. It is an understanding that drives from media, and not the actual power balance on the ground. Ethiopia warkeeda waa laguu hayaa! If there is no division in experise as to who can authoritatively speak about where, and who should listen [based on their background and proximity to the issues at hand], then there is no room to learn from one another and to guide each other to the right course. Xinn The answer to your question about whether sustaining and increasing the Muqaawama that is going on in Somalia is the way to kick Ethiopia out of somalia is simple and short. YES! Definitely YES! If you have no idea of the recommendations of Ethiopian Generals week in week out in Addis, and the frustration of the top leadership, then go and research. Start from African confidential and the ICG. War nimanku waa carar ku dhawaade, qoriga ila qaad inkaar qabe!

Is WAR not tangible? Yaa Malika. Dialogue between who and who? I think you are putting the cart before the horse, to use that tired cliche. Dialogue will come after occpation forces are dealt with. Now that it is clear a section of us [alshabab, and the ARS] are determined to continue the fight, is supporting them not part of the process to develop consensus? Haday iyagu goosteen inay dagaalka wadaan, without them na aan rajo laga qabin nabadgalyo dhacda, why not support them so that the time for suffering is shortened. Malika et al's lamentations of me as a dreamer comes from an understaniding that the challenges ahead, mainly that of Ethiopia, are so insurmountable with blood and iron that anything else would be preferable. It is an understanding that drives from media, and not the actual power balance on the ground. Ethiopia warkeeda waa laguu hayaa! If there is no division in experise as to who can authoritatively speak about where, and who should listen [based on their background and proximity to the issues at hand], then there is no room to learn from one another and to guide each other to the right course. Xinn The answer to your question about whether sustaining and increasing the Muqaawama that is going on in Somalia is the way to kick Ethiopia out of somalia is simple and short. YES! Definitely YES! If you have no idea of the recommendations of Ethiopian Generals week in week out in Addis, and the frustration of the top leadership, then go and research. Start from African confidential and the ICG. War nimanku waa carar ku dhawaade, qoriga ila qaad inkaar qabe!

Ceyrow Jr., why ask that silly question. Kor igala soco! Do you want Emperor inuu soo booduu yidhaa ONLF waa argagixiso! Just becuase their are doing what they should militarily and morally do?

I disagree with Che in that this is, if you don't take my line, then it is over. It isn't also about a DEBATE for the sake of it, as Brofossor Geljire concluded. Anyway, to answer adeer Xinn on two fundamental issues: Let me start with where I think Xinn's biggest mistake lies. Not that I am intersted in fault-finding, but that it is so fundamental for the way we look at things. XINN's myth of an Ethiopia with upperhand and strong is just that- a MYTH. That it occupies Somalia today is not a good enough demonstartion of its strength. Who can't occupy Somalia today? Zanzibar surely can. Ethiopia is WEAK. Mind how a small group of 'Alshabab's' are holding against it, and in only two years have moved from defensive to being offensive. Mind how ONLF is faring in that region with its ALL faliures. It has now started taking districts. This is just the tip of the iceberg. LAST WEEK, MELES Zenawi called all pseudo-regional 'presidents' at Addis Ababa Stadium for the sole purpose of handing them the ethiiopian National FLAG and ordering the Amharic national anthem to be played in all regions. What we see is a gradual centralisation of power and a reinvigoration of the "Ethiopian UNITY" slogans of the previous regimes. This is coming from a man who started as anti-Amhara and all their regalia. WHY? XINN? miyaad garan sababta! It is because of the failures in Somalia, and the unpopular war which no one supported in Ethiopia. He is trying to realign himself to the "ultra-nationalists" who happen to be mostly Amhara's. It is a strategic retreat from the false pretence of empowering nationalities that were subjugated by "Amhara Chauvinism"- to borrow his own word. The man is confused! and is trying to clutch to all straws around. Will the Amhara's accept him in his new role? a BIG NO! but not becuase they care about Somalia. He has done too much damage to their intersts and 'dignity'. So, he will fail here too. Is this significant? absoultely. It shows the man is facing that maximisation dilemma. Will he go for Amhara's? or for the rest? None will support him whichever choice he makes. And opposition in Ethiopia is feeling the TPLF is vulnerable and 'defeatable' by military power. That is why EPPF (Ethiopian People's Patriotic Front) is raiding towns in the North. The OROMO's are the disappointemnt so far. I am calling for the maximisation of WAR, and spending all intellectual, capital, labour and other resources to augment the struggle. For a short term goal and a longer vision: Short Term: - Kicking the occupying forces out of Somalia and saving us the ignominy of being "under occupation" by the poorest country in the face of the Earth. [ Timeline: 6 months, intensify the attacks, and widen the coverage of the areas hostile to the EThiopian army. good progress has been made last week] - Once Ethiopa is out of Somalia, it is obvious Islamic groups will fill the gap. However, here is where your man Sheikh shariif and all the somali intellectuals can play their role to reign in the top 'gaas-dhagoolayaal' in the courts [who no more threatened by capture] should see the benefit of agreeing to a broad-based national Transitional governmnet that will organise elections within 6 months] Long-term Beat the Ethiopians by their own game: divide. no work is needed here, it is only to clandestinely work for the topplingof the Meles' regime by working with the Oromos, Amharas, ONLF and all opposition. Meles, if he sees he can't rule Ethiopia, will do the rest. I believe what Abdullahi Yusuf did to Somalia will pale into insignificiance to what MELES will do to Somalia. Contrary to the notion, we Somali's are divided, there is no people as divided and angry on one another as Ethiopians. A disintegrated Ethiopia [like Yugoslavia] will herald the birth of a UNITED SOMALIA, including NFD. It is a risky scheme, it demands a lot of work, but very much achieveable within a DECADE. Haday raggeeedii hesho. Xinn, Ethiopia is our neighbour, but 'you don't live like your neighbour wishes you to live'. If pecae is of interst to us, it has to be for them as well. This is when I take your "homogenous Ethiopia" assumption as valid. Bulwer Lyton's famous line, " the pen is mightier than the Sword ", cheats lots of people. What they fail to quote is his qualifying line, "... ONLY UNDER PEOPLE ENTIRELY GREAT" . Are the Xabash's great? Assuming they aren't, the reverse should be true. " The SWORD IS MIGHTIER THAN THE PEN!!!!!!!!"

I disagree with Che in that this is, if you don't take my line, then it is over. It isn't also about a DEBATE for the sake of it, as Brofossor Geljire concluded. Anyway, to answer adeer Xinn on two fundamental issues: Let me start with where I think Xinn's biggest mistake lies. Not that I am intersted in fault-finding, but that it is so fundamental for the way we look at things. XINN's myth of an Ethiopia with upperhand and strong is just that- a MYTH. That it occupies Somalia today is not a good enough demonstartion of its strength. Who can't occupy Somalia today? Zanzibar surely can. Ethiopia is WEAK. Mind how a small group of 'Alshabab's' are holding against it, and in only two years have moved from defensive to being offensive. Mind how ONLF is faring in that region with its ALL faliures. It has now started taking districts. This is just the tip of the iceberg. LAST WEEK, MELES Zenawi called all pseudo-regional 'presidents' at Addis Ababa Stadium for the sole purpose of handing them the ethiiopian National FLAG and ordering the Amharic national anthem to be played in all regions. What we see is a gradual centralisation of power and a reinvigoration of the "Ethiopian UNITY" slogans of the previous regimes. This is coming from a man who started as anti-Amhara and all their regalia. WHY? XINN? miyaad garan sababta! It is because of the failures in Somalia, and the unpopular war which no one supported in Ethiopia. He is trying to realign himself to the "ultra-nationalists" who happen to be mostly Amhara's. It is a strategic retreat from the false pretence of empowering nationalities that were subjugated by "Amhara Chauvinism"- to borrow his own word. The man is confused! and is trying to clutch to all straws around. Will the Amhara's accept him in his new role? a BIG NO! but not becuase they care about Somalia. He has done too much damage to their intersts and 'dignity'. So, he will fail here too. Is this significant? absoultely. It shows the man is facing that maximisation dilemma. Will he go for Amhara's? or for the rest? None will support him whichever choice he makes. And opposition in Ethiopia is feeling the TPLF is vulnerable and 'defeatable' by military power. That is why EPPF (Ethiopian People's Patriotic Front) is raiding towns in the North. The OROMO's are the disappointemnt so far. I am calling for the maximisation of WAR, and spending all intellectual, capital, labour and other resources to augment the struggle. For a short term goal and a longer vision: Short Term: - Kicking the occupying forces out of Somalia and saving us the ignominy of being "under occupation" by the poorest country in the face of the Earth. [ Timeline: 6 months, intensify the attacks, and widen the coverage of the areas hostile to the EThiopian army. good progress has been made last week] - Once Ethiopa is out of Somalia, it is obvious Islamic groups will fill the gap. However, here is where your man Sheikh shariif and all the somali intellectuals can play their role to reign in the top 'gaas-dhagoolayaal' in the courts [who no more threatened by capture] should see the benefit of agreeing to a broad-based national Transitional governmnet that will organise elections within 6 months] Long-term Beat the Ethiopians by their own game: divide. no work is needed here, it is only to clandestinely work for the topplingof the Meles' regime by working with the Oromos, Amharas, ONLF and all opposition. Meles, if he sees he can't rule Ethiopia, will do the rest. I believe what Abdullahi Yusuf did to Somalia will pale into insignificiance to what MELES will do to Somalia. Contrary to the notion, we Somali's are divided, there is no people as divided and angry on one another as Ethiopians. A disintegrated Ethiopia [like Yugoslavia] will herald the birth of a UNITED SOMALIA, including NFD. It is a risky scheme, it demands a lot of work, but very much achieveable within a DECADE. Haday raggeeedii hesho. Xinn, Ethiopia is our neighbour, but 'you don't live like your neighbour wishes you to live'. If pecae is of interst to us, it has to be for them as well. This is when I take your "homogenous Ethiopia" assumption as valid. Bulwer Lyton's famous line, " the pen is mightier than the Sword ", cheats lots of people. What they fail to quote is his qualifying line, "... ONLY UNDER PEOPLE ENTIRELY GREAT" . Are the Xabash's great? Assuming they aren't, the reverse should be true. " The SWORD IS MIGHTIER THAN THE PEN!!!!!!!!"

Garhaye Xeradda Garab-case guriga ugu xiga anaa leh halgame. Waan la xidhiidhay dhulkii oo dhufays iyo wada darbi ayey ka dhigteen. There is no safe place for Woyannes. Ma maqasheey inay Axmaaradiina ka bilaabeen North. EPPF koox la yidhaa oo aynaan isku ujeedoo aheyn ayaa si ba'an wax u wada. Guul iyo Salaan Sare!

Garhaye Xeradda Garab-case guriga ugu xiga anaa leh halgame. Waan la xidhiidhay dhulkii oo dhufays iyo wada darbi ayey ka dhigteen. There is no safe place for Woyannes. Ma maqasheey inay Axmaaradiina ka bilaabeen North. EPPF koox la yidhaa oo aynaan isku ujeedoo aheyn ayaa si ba'an wax u wada. Guul iyo Salaan Sare!

Originally posted by Emperor: War ninkan A&T laleeyahay tol maleh miyaa? Waar tolkiisow hadaad joogtaan ninkan maad xirxirtaan, hadii kalese oo tol loowaayo aniga dad uxigi doonna oo Mental Hospitalka gaynaya ee inoosheega Waryaa waxaan ku idhi Emperor, why don't you take me to the one in Addis, meesha la idinka maamulo and along with me this poem: Adaa Emperaroow Jiitayoo Janan Tigree raacay Aduu Ethiopia jacayl kaa riday jar iyo haadaamo Adaa jeel qudmuun hooy ka dhigtay lagu jannobaayo Canjeeradii Jidhidhicada laheyd adaa jawharad u haysta Ee markaad sii jarmaateed Jinyahoow Adari sii dhaafto Addis Ababa jaafaheediyo kolkaad Shawa ku jaangooyso Jeertaad jaahil macruuf yahoow u tagto kuwii ku weedaanshay Adigaa ku jeesteeya hoos jooga’e u gee hadalkan oo gaaban Somali jinn xumadii aad ku jaftay diidee oo nace dheh Anagii jaajuus barbarad kuu aheyn waa jabkayagii dheh Jinnac duulaan sidii bay Jabhadihii noogu jiireyeen dheh Jirab kii na gaadhaa walee na jaray jeenigiya jiifkaa Jacleey iyo waxay nagu jafeen hub iyo baaruud dheh Kolkaan soo jibboneen jawjaw ka nidhi golaha SOL oo dhan Qalin iyo jiifto waxaa jigre ka dhigtay Jammaladoodii dheh Janna-gale DHUBAD wuxuu juglay jidhifle soo tuuray Wuxuu CISSE jeedal kula dhiciyoo iyo Jaasimkii Kashafaa Dhiig Joojintii uu ku baday ninkii Tusbaxa jeelaabtay Jaad kay ahaayeen u sheeg waa ku wadaad garaanee!! Tuug markaan meel yar gaadho isii fadhfadho adigu!

The Tragedy Of the “Uncommons”: DECONSTRUCTING XINNFANIN’S INSIDIOUS ‘PACIFISM’ Garett Hardin’s path-breaking article the tragedy of the commons, that has since been adopted as the ABC of Natural Resource Economics for so long started off with this quotation published in Science Journal. “At the end of a thoughtful article on the future of nuclear war, Wiesner and York concluded that: ‘Both sides in the arms race are…confronted by the dilemma of steadily increasing military powers and steadily decreasing national security’. It is our considered professional judgement that this dilemma has no technical solution. If the great powers continue to look for solutions in the area of science and technology only, the result will be to worsen the situation”. Before I fetter my craving for divulging into the details of a subject I am passionate about and is so vivid in my mind from the days of my graduate studies so and so years back, allow me to make one more reference to my notes. An instructor once classified the role of economists into “fixers (who make a living solving problems), Bean-Counters (making a living doing calculating costs, comparing them with prices and the values offered to buyers) and Philosophers (who like to play with ideas and only occasionally enter the fray with a suggested answers to a problem.” To me, fixers are those who took to the heart that it is mathematically impossible to maximize for two (or more) variables at the same time. Something that was clearly stated by Von Neumann and Morgenstern, but also implicit in the theory of partial differential equations, dating back at least to D’Alembert (1717-83). That I dug deep into the books of the “dismal” science in search of an answer to Xinnfanin’s mysterious belief in ‘peace-activism’ in the current state of Somalia, is neither to sicken the appetite of the unusually impatient Somali readership nor to display grasp of a subject matter of a not-so-amusing field of study. It is because Xinnfanin’s seemingly innocuous ‘misconstructions’ and explanations, and my heated arguments with him over a gnawingly subjective and speculative matter have reached to a point where virtually all of the references I made here are being justified, I hope, of being rightfully been extracted out of retirement. One, there is no technical solution that can return peace to Somalia, if Xinnfanin continues to beseech for ‘peace’ from the very hands of the people who believe its very birth will herald their demise. The very fatalistic Tigre’s who in primitive reverence to biblical prophesies believe the ‘ultimate conqueror of their empire will rise from the East’. So, if Xinn believes peace will be made by an arrangement between Somali’s warring factions (assuming it is so for the sake of argument), when the big factor of instability is either not satisfied with the residue of the form and soul of its ‘eggs’ in the subjugated peninsula, or when it hasn’t faced an internal compelling situation that warranted its withdrawal; then his call for ‘peace’ will be imparting from either a bamboozling lapse in judgement or a conscious conning and classic thuggery with the highest acne of sophistication. Much important is that peace cannot come by the grace of the aggressor, or by putting on blinders. On such issues, it is akin to the game of noughts and crosses. It can only be achieved if a radical meaning is given to the word ‘peace’, which herein might be reconstructed to mean ‘peace under occupation’, and ‘peace in indignity’. It is clear, in keeping with the universally accepted conflict resolution principles of ‘give-and-take’, the chief protagonist to this conflict is not ready to give something in-return for something it says has triggered its blitzkrieg. For leaving Somalia is not a ‘give’, as Somalia wasn’t Ethiopian’s colony that it now decided to reward its ‘primitive’ subjects by granting them their ‘freedom’!! At will!!! Two, going back to the quotations, it is quite evident that the man in discussion here is a Bean-counter (busy on the itineraries of reconciliation meetings and diplomatic correspondences) and a philosopher (who enters into the fray –right here at SOL with suggested answers to solutions). At least, in his role as the latter, Xinn would have already done pretty well in masking treason as ‘statesmanship’ and pacifism –historically much in vogue with those who actually make the most out of its absence- as ‘the only viable solution to come out of the ashes’. Selective referencing and citations of incongruent precedents fill with rapture the appetite of the appeasers, at it always was the case. Xinnfanin is not a fixer! Third is the mathematical maximization duality problem. You cannot maximize for two variables at the same time. Xinn might still come back and argue maths has little to do with the intricacies of socio-political dynamic variables, and he might have a point there; but who said I should forgo the rigour of figures for the feeble hunch of a delusional demagogue with all the wrong concept of ‘peace and pacifism’. Particularly, when the two variables to be maximized simultaneously in one equation are war and peace! The less intelligent pro-Yey parrots in SOL make more sense to me because they at least seem to have concurred with the fact that trying to solve that function is unattainable even with the added provisions of a Lagrangian multiplier. And hence has taken the safe route of promoting ‘dawlad-xuni (DX) dawlad la’aan (DL) bay dhaantaa’ disgusting myth to quench their clan vendettas against fellow Somali’s and the inherent ‘conscious acceptance of guilt in the necessary murder’ to borrow a line from Auden’s poem Spain. Xinn is ever more becoming indistinguishable from the honorary alumni’s of the elastic category of Yey apologists. I can confidently say that the antiquated aphorism about ‘DX being on a higher social welfare curve than DL’ is a disguise for disorder and looting; and presupposes that an ‘assumed anarchy’ of ‘dawlad-la’aan’ -in the spirit of the proponents of that slogan- is worse than an institutionalised tribalism and vengeance in the shirt of ‘nadaam and dawladnimo’ is something my conscience has refused to accept. I can elaborate, but not now. In the interest of brevity, let me stop here for now. But with a parting shot: it is my modest judgement (not the modesty Chinua Achebe talked about when he said ‘what is modesty but an inverted pride’) that if Xinn continues to look solutions in a flaccid continuum of peace, peace and peace (and for vanity and morality alone peace looked the better option to him), and if he thinks craven submissiveness will yield good harvests of that noble ideal, then our debate has no TECHNICAL SOLUTION TOO. NOT even at academic level! It is the latest entry into the class of ‘no technical solution problems’, and it emanates from the uncommon co-existence in the mind of Xinn of obsession with ‘peace’ at all cost, unwillingness to unequivocally tell ‘the war-lovers’ in their entirety [if that is what is in the heart] to go hang, pulling the wool over own eyes in the face of atrocities on the one hand; and declared nationalism, dedication to diin & dalka, and determination to hold the sanctity of a unified Somali nation on the other hand. But, that won’t diminish my love for the man. He is truly erudite and on top of issues when it doesn’t involve YEY’s grand plan! And he, at no point, seemed like a sick soul nursing impalpable grudge against any people or group- quite unlike General Duke and few other trumpeters of ‘clan pride and hegemony’. If only that fleeting infatuation with a certain ‘incognito’ masquerading as a leader evaporates overnight! If only the misconstructions of the concept of peace gives us a sound break! Tu! Tu! Bismillahi raxmaani raxiin! Ka baxa Xinn! Wakaa aan kugu tufay awoow e ilaahay ha kaa saaro shayaadiinta ku dhexqaaday!!!

The Tragedy Of the “Uncommons”: DECONSTRUCTING XINNFANIN’S INSIDIOUS ‘PACIFISM’ Garett Hardin’s path-breaking article the tragedy of the commons, that has since been adopted as the ABC of Natural Resource Economics for so long started off with this quotation published in Science Journal. “At the end of a thoughtful article on the future of nuclear war, Wiesner and York concluded that: ‘Both sides in the arms race are…confronted by the dilemma of steadily increasing military powers and steadily decreasing national security’. It is our considered professional judgement that this dilemma has no technical solution. If the great powers continue to look for solutions in the area of science and technology only, the result will be to worsen the situation”. Before I fetter my craving for divulging into the details of a subject I am passionate about and is so vivid in my mind from the days of my graduate studies so and so years back, allow me to make one more reference to my notes. An instructor once classified the role of economists into “fixers (who make a living solving problems), Bean-Counters (making a living doing calculating costs, comparing them with prices and the values offered to buyers) and Philosophers (who like to play with ideas and only occasionally enter the fray with a suggested answers to a problem.” To me, fixers are those who took to the heart that it is mathematically impossible to maximize for two (or more) variables at the same time. Something that was clearly stated by Von Neumann and Morgenstern, but also implicit in the theory of partial differential equations, dating back at least to D’Alembert (1717-83). That I dug deep into the books of the “dismal” science in search of an answer to Xinnfanin’s mysterious belief in ‘peace-activism’ in the current state of Somalia, is neither to sicken the appetite of the unusually impatient Somali readership nor to display grasp of a subject matter of a not-so-amusing field of study. It is because Xinnfanin’s seemingly innocuous ‘misconstructions’ and explanations, and my heated arguments with him over a gnawingly subjective and speculative matter have reached to a point where virtually all of the references I made here are being justified, I hope, of being rightfully been extracted out of retirement. One, there is no technical solution that can return peace to Somalia, if Xinnfanin continues to beseech for ‘peace’ from the very hands of the people who believe its very birth will herald their demise. The very fatalistic Tigre’s who in primitive reverence to biblical prophesies believe the ‘ultimate conqueror of their empire will rise from the East’. So, if Xinn believes peace will be made by an arrangement between Somali’s warring factions (assuming it is so for the sake of argument), when the big factor of instability is either not satisfied with the residue of the form and soul of its ‘eggs’ in the subjugated peninsula, or when it hasn’t faced an internal compelling situation that warranted its withdrawal; then his call for ‘peace’ will be imparting from either a bamboozling lapse in judgement or a conscious conning and classic thuggery with the highest acne of sophistication. Much important is that peace cannot come by the grace of the aggressor, or by putting on blinders. On such issues, it is akin to the game of noughts and crosses. It can only be achieved if a radical meaning is given to the word ‘peace’, which herein might be reconstructed to mean ‘peace under occupation’, and ‘peace in indignity’. It is clear, in keeping with the universally accepted conflict resolution principles of ‘give-and-take’, the chief protagonist to this conflict is not ready to give something in-return for something it says has triggered its blitzkrieg. For leaving Somalia is not a ‘give’, as Somalia wasn’t Ethiopian’s colony that it now decided to reward its ‘primitive’ subjects by granting them their ‘freedom’!! At will!!! Two, going back to the quotations, it is quite evident that the man in discussion here is a Bean-counter (busy on the itineraries of reconciliation meetings and diplomatic correspondences) and a philosopher (who enters into the fray –right here at SOL with suggested answers to solutions). At least, in his role as the latter, Xinn would have already done pretty well in masking treason as ‘statesmanship’ and pacifism –historically much in vogue with those who actually make the most out of its absence- as ‘the only viable solution to come out of the ashes’. Selective referencing and citations of incongruent precedents fill with rapture the appetite of the appeasers, at it always was the case. Xinnfanin is not a fixer! Third is the mathematical maximization duality problem. You cannot maximize for two variables at the same time. Xinn might still come back and argue maths has little to do with the intricacies of socio-political dynamic variables, and he might have a point there; but who said I should forgo the rigour of figures for the feeble hunch of a delusional demagogue with all the wrong concept of ‘peace and pacifism’. Particularly, when the two variables to be maximized simultaneously in one equation are war and peace! The less intelligent pro-Yey parrots in SOL make more sense to me because they at least seem to have concurred with the fact that trying to solve that function is unattainable even with the added provisions of a Lagrangian multiplier. And hence has taken the safe route of promoting ‘dawlad-xuni (DX) dawlad la’aan (DL) bay dhaantaa’ disgusting myth to quench their clan vendettas against fellow Somali’s and the inherent ‘conscious acceptance of guilt in the necessary murder’ to borrow a line from Auden’s poem Spain. Xinn is ever more becoming indistinguishable from the honorary alumni’s of the elastic category of Yey apologists. I can confidently say that the antiquated aphorism about ‘DX being on a higher social welfare curve than DL’ is a disguise for disorder and looting; and presupposes that an ‘assumed anarchy’ of ‘dawlad-la’aan’ -in the spirit of the proponents of that slogan- is worse than an institutionalised tribalism and vengeance in the shirt of ‘nadaam and dawladnimo’ is something my conscience has refused to accept. I can elaborate, but not now. In the interest of brevity, let me stop here for now. But with a parting shot: it is my modest judgement (not the modesty Chinua Achebe talked about when he said ‘what is modesty but an inverted pride’) that if Xinn continues to look solutions in a flaccid continuum of peace, peace and peace (and for vanity and morality alone peace looked the better option to him), and if he thinks craven submissiveness will yield good harvests of that noble ideal, then our debate has no TECHNICAL SOLUTION TOO. NOT even at academic level! It is the latest entry into the class of ‘no technical solution problems’, and it emanates from the uncommon co-existence in the mind of Xinn of obsession with ‘peace’ at all cost, unwillingness to unequivocally tell ‘the war-lovers’ in their entirety [if that is what is in the heart] to go hang, pulling the wool over own eyes in the face of atrocities on the one hand; and declared nationalism, dedication to diin & dalka, and determination to hold the sanctity of a unified Somali nation on the other hand. But, that won’t diminish my love for the man. He is truly erudite and on top of issues when it doesn’t involve YEY’s grand plan! And he, at no point, seemed like a sick soul nursing impalpable grudge against any people or group- quite unlike General Duke and few other trumpeters of ‘clan pride and hegemony’. If only that fleeting infatuation with a certain ‘incognito’ masquerading as a leader evaporates overnight! If only the misconstructions of the concept of peace gives us a sound break! Tu! Tu! Bismillahi raxmaani raxiin! Ka baxa Xinn! Wakaa aan kugu tufay awoow e ilaahay ha kaa saaro shayaadiinta ku dhexqaaday!!!

The bucolic ‘Pharmacist’ Were it not for the noisy Nadiifo, who else would have brought out in the open the shames of Jawhar-farsamo? And the sad thing was must all that deep reverence for being the undisputed ‘Dakhtar’ come to such a discomfiting end. Not quite the end, but just about there. Professor Asrat Woldeys was the man many in Ethiopia believed to have been the best surgeon of the 20th century. Indeed, the late Surgeon had travelled thousands of miles across oceans to offer his services to whole host of dignitaries from Presidents, Prime Ministers, to the royalties of East and West. Yet, for mama Asli, a long time client and admirer of this haughty man ‘schooled’ in Duufaan regiment of Jabhadihii 77’- Jawhar - is the ultimate healer- the messenger of health between ‘God’ and man. “It is that he is from Somali, otherwise boqol Barafasoor buuna biyaha u kabbanayn,” she scoffs at his detractors when they suggest he is no more than a mere “Nurse Xoogweyn”. She was also among those who fought hard to clear his name when that Nadiifo came up with despicable and absurd allegations against him. Hardly was it a secret to anyone in town that Jawhar has consistently appealed for the reversal of an earlier demotion to the laboratory (specifically as head of the stool examinations) after few old grumpy women charged him of ‘preferential treatment’ while administering injections to different age groups and sexes. They said, the young girls are given more time, and often emerge relaxed and with no visible grimaces on their faces; even after given the painful benzetine penicillin for Tonsillitis. As to the oldies, it was not uncommon to see them frantically rubbing their hands on their backs, with clenched teeth and contorted cheeks; as soon as they came out of the injection room. With men, it was always a big brawl. Most leave the scene threatening to break his skull once Jawhar comes out to the open. Or cursing, if not young enough to roll back the sleeves. But, why they brought him back to his old ‘injection’ job and away from the embarrassment of ‘madaxa baadhitaanka saxarada’ is not because his unstinting appeals paid off. Oddly enough, it is because he made a big gaffe there as well, and the senior management couldn’t stand it anymore. First, it was said he didn’t do examinations on any stools sent to him because he felt it wasn’t in his lineage to indulge in such ‘dirty’ works. So, they said, he looked at the colour of the samples from a distance, and just scribbled the diagnosis off head. If too dark, Goryaan weynn If too white, Daacuun If in-between kaneeco ama Qabsin If unrecognisable, kor ha loo diro (referral)- for hawo-gedis. Second, he was angry why he had no assistants, yet he was the head? ‘The head of whom?’ At least here, he was unreasonable. Did he not learn it is the love for empty power, even when deprived of associated privileges that makes much meaning to Somali’s? Didn’t he realize you sell every job to a Somali as long as you are crafty enough to put the prefix ‘Madaxa’ before whatever? War ninkani Soomali ma yaqaan miyaa, one wonders. It wasn’t exactly any of this that put him in the hole, though. It was how he behaved when he ‘examined’ that of Cali-Kayse (the son of the District Chairman) after he was admitted on emergency. Cali-kayse was a big ‘chain chewer’ of qat. Claiming qat is more useful as a nutrient than food, Cali mocks that he ‘chewed’ his adult life. So, as his stool made to the lab, Jawhar was surprised and angry at the same time. Angry at the audacity of some people who are here to test his skills by sending in ‘animal dung’- just to check if he pays attention or not! So, fuming, he sneaked his head out of the tiny window and shouted, “Yaa meeshan keenay alaabta FARDAHA?” He threw the petite bottle away and admonished visitors against such foolish deeds. The Gudoomiye heard this and immediately asked for his head to roll before dawn breaks. Call it a blessing in disguise or a justified return to where he was most needed, but Jawhar managed to regain the job he does with plenty of passion- injections. Another lucky break was that the ‘pseudo-modern’ Doctor Daahiye, who demeaned the healing powers of Jawhar’s herbs and kerosene, and wasn’t prescribing sufficient amount of injections to patients was fired that week. And in the rare instances when Daahiye sees the need for such treatment, Jawhar’s fate has been to administer injections to old women, disconcerting chidren,and men with cement-bottoms; as if there were no beautiful girls with big ‘bags’ in town! Jawhar wondered when it was the last time he injected something meaningful? A Fortnight ago? When he injected Sacdiyo? In order to rein in the somewhat idiosyncratic moral fibre of Somali’s unrelenting ‘I run short of cash’, ‘tomorrow, I will bring’ and ‘nin lacagta iga soo qaada isoo raaci’ pleas; It was Jawhar’s idea to have all the prices posted on a big board hanging from the right end of the reception room. Just behind Jamaac’s executive swivel chair. That he cares about the business of the ‘clinic’ was the reason he got back into his romance with needles. In case anyone thinks he can find a loophole in that the board is about prices but not about services on credit, the boldest message on the wall was reserved for just that purpose. And Jawhar, who is known for not grinding his words, authored it: ‘Busaarada ma daweyno! If you have no money, go back adigoo raali ah! Even Faataxada oo lagugu tuffo costs you here!” That is why some call the ‘little clinic’ – ‘Falaa-Taqrabuu Clinic’. Not by its certified name, ‘rugta baadhitaanka iyo daaweynta ee Tabantaabo.’ Clad in long sleeved ‘Pakistani Qamiis’ with a ‘kofiyad cad’ which he mistook for orthodox ‘medical attire’, and his elongated ‘Tusbax’ hanging from his thick sweaty neck, Jawhar alerts everybody to the prices for check-up consultations and medicines of highest value offered exclusively in this three-room ‘clinic’. [see the details in the Annex] It is a man of this incredible ‘fervour’ for business and profession that the dim-witted Nadiifo says had rubbed her body under the guise of injecting her. Worse, she even says, hees buu ii shittay, only recollecting partially the first lines of what he supposedly was playing as … Kol baan is idhaa kuf oo kac bal kow dhee…’ ‘; as he took more than ten minutes with excuses of ‘dawaa kugu socotee ha is daqdaqaajin’, xididkaagii la ma helin, and waa dawo miyir u baahan ee samir’. Why does Mama Asli have so much respect for this ‘medical man’? It all goes back when she found out her first child has a hearing problem. She went to all modern doctors who gave reasons from infections to deformities to the child’s ailment. Hopeless, when she finally came back to Jawhar, he asked her one simple question. “Have you done the routine ninth-month ritual (sagaalaysi) properly?” She replied,” yes.” Then he clarified, “did you make the indispensable Qasiido for the occasion?” She jolted up in contrition and realised where things went wrong. Will there be any chance of redemption if I do it now, she wondered? Jawhar opened his big stereo and the sound was deafening. Madadan sitooy faadumooy Siti faadumooy madadaan Gabadhii rasuulku dhalee La cizeeyayeey madadaan And he ordered her to put the boy’s ears close to the big amplifier. A week later, the boy was said to be good enough for a VHF radio receiver task. True or false, coincidence or divine intervention, who can tell? Mama Asli’s defence argument centered on one key negation of Nadiifo’s theory. How could he possibly would have tried it on that woman when Fozia, the lady who sells milk, and who is, by far ‘endowed’ with that crucial section of the body has been going to the same ‘Farmasi’ for so long without any complaints? Truth be told, Jawhar is said to be ‘cool-handed’, and so mellow when he chooses to be tender to his patients. Almost in a way locals say would put into the pale the magic powers of the hand in Murasaki Shikubo’s ‘the tale of Genji’. No wonder the name Farsamo, hence. He can also be so rough, as was the fate that befallen on poor Cameey when he was injected with a syringe that size of that used for livestock. Jawhar often says he would rather still tight at home than do anything outside injection rooms. And by his own admission he says, he never opened his mind to a life without a syringe! ANNEX Details of the services and medicines, and Prices 1. Murqaha oo Gaas lagu duugo Sh.Som 50,000 2. Biyo la diiriyey oo Milix leh Sh.Som 100,000 3. Taxaliil from as far as Sheekh Abaadir (mixed with Mineral water) Sh.Som 120,000 4. Qardhaas (depending on size & content) 4x4 with qul-acudu birabil falaq Sh.Som 320,000 12X14 with Tabaarak Sh.Som 500,000 Any size( leather-coated) Sh.som 140,000 5. Sinjibiil & Xabaasuud / hayl iyo qorofol (optional) Sh.som 85,000 6. Malmal & Toobin (by prior order) Sh. som 900,000 Daawooyinka Casriga ah: Descripion Unit Qiimaha (Sh.Som) 1. Aasburo Xabbad iyo Jab Sh.Som 150,000 2. Abu-Faas half-litre Sh. Som 35,000 3. Ta feedaha iyo Xididada Labbo Xabo Sh.Som 220,000 4. Ta diiga furta & Ta joojisa Darsinkii (no less, for sale) Sh.Som 180,000 5. Saabuunta haweenka ugubka ah Afartii hal Sh.Som 210,000 6. Dhamaan Shuquladda is-daba mara Kolba say u kala daran yihiin is-af-garad

NOTICE (Just managed to type this in rush!) Hawlaha ihaysta, Kubbad aniga waa la iiga daran yahay maalmahan. Congra SPAIN, I am happy for them.

^waxan yaan lagaa raacin??

Adigoo danbi baadha ahaa oo CID ahaa hadaad maantana tahay suldaan waa la yaab! Waan kuu hambalyaynayaa! Dheg-dheer magaciisu waa kuma? Yaa? Dhuxuloow aa? Dhuxuloow magac ma ahee wax kale noo sheeg????? ERAYADII: (Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed- YEY) Ninkuu shirka u diruu ku leeyahay magaciisu muxuu ahaa?? KA DAR OO DIBI DHAL. (I know you have heard it!) BUT Please reflect on it! In lilaahi wa inaa ilaahi raajicuunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!

Sheekh Shariif's mission almost succedding. He was an ignorant player, though. Wataa lixdan garab u dhaqaaqdee ha ka leefo! Devolution of anarchy!

Originally posted by Kool_Kat: Che, Alow yaa kab dacas kula dhicin... Self-explanatory!!KK. Gacan-dheer!

Shariifka yaa kari? Kolkuu maqlo shir baa jiro hadana boodi e.