Hawk-Dove game

[Baashi]

This game is not your usual kadhimeey kadhim crap nor is it kabay-bilataa kinda sissy game. This one is do or die game. It is a subset of the Chicken game and can be reduced to its bare bones -- by cutting all the mathematical and "mutual destruction" intellectual thing -- for the hope that by doing this all can comprehend its minute details and can thus participate.

 

That being said lets get started. There are two contestants and four possible outcomes and they are (win, lose) | (lose, win) | (lose, lose) | (win, win). For simplicity sake suppose there are no resources to compete for instead there is this imaginary golden cup a.k.a the "top seat"

 

There are two contestants competeing for the venerable gambar. They are:

 

1 - Reer Qurac are rooting for the big man Hon. Warranle.

 

2 - Reer Qansax are supporting their guru Imam Mahdi.

 

The system under which contest is held is not stable and there are all kind of disturbances be it yaaci, haaweey, doc-ka-yeer, darbiyo salaan, and other less known waxa-la-yirri crowd.

 

Now the organizers of the game thought that the game will have unimpeachable credibility if the venue is the dangerous bridge by the name of Liiliiqato in the beautiful riverside city of Beled Weyn.

 

Each team will be given Kareeto driven by healthy and muscular power donkey. They need to cross the bridge and get to other bank of the river. Do that in one piece and you win.

 

Now there are four scenerio:

 

1- Swerve and let ur nemesis pass to avoid head-on collision ([lose, win] aka chickened out hence the name chiken but in this subset it is a dove)

 

2 - Swerve in the hope that your enemy's instinct is as same as yours and he will do the same and swerve ([win, win] both chickened out -- what a dove! -- Baashi's position in the larger scheme of things)

 

3 - Straight and your nemesis swinges the wheel and hence chickens out ([win, lose])

 

4 - Both drivers drop their right foot on the gas pedal as dead paper weight Straight on the line without blinking -- boom!!! Allaha u naxariisto both not to mention the bridge takes a dive -- disaster all around. Straight, Straight variable gives you head on collision which only means ([lose, lose])

 

Choose your team if you would and select ur leader from SOL politics forum and have him get on the kareeto of his choice.

 

My team are (don't worry it is not for real:

 

Bilaal

Liqaye

Libaax

Warmoog

 

Libaax is our driver and my hunch is he will look the other fool squarely in the eye and made decision based on the assessment he makes about the character of the other leader.

[Cara.]

What will the passengers do? Can they communicate with the passengers on the other vehicle?

[Baashi]

There are no passengers! Each team chooses their leader. The leader goes to duel -- for the price! If he, or she just in case there is Araweelo in the house, wins, the Team are hooked up and they will be in an adventageous position as they will be favored by their leader now Il Capo sitting on the highly regarded gambar.

 

But if ur team leader loses (say chickens out or worse takes nose dive in the crocodile invested river as result of head on collision) you will either be under the thump of the wiiner or cut off from the rest and isolated on the opposite bank of the river.

[Baashi]

Scenario One

 

Team 1: TFG wearing the red shirts and white jerseys.

Leader: Col. Yey

Kareeto: V-6 engine donated by Tigre friends in Addis. It also has Ford parts in it.

Donkey: 17 years old. Fed by IGAD

Disturbances: renegade parliamentarians, demoted founders in the original armed officer club.

Type: Hawk

 

Team 2: Asmara Group wearing the blue shirts and black jerseys.

Leader: Sheikh Sheriif

Kareeto: V-4 engine donated by Eritrean friends in Asmara. It also has Egypt counterfeit parts in it.

Donkey: 2 years old. Fed by Eritrea.

Disturbances: renegade and energized youth, undesirable elements loyal to other competing groups.

Type: Hawk

 

The price: Gambar

 

Outcome: head-on collision and certain instant death.

 

Variable: [lose, lose]

 

Bridge: broken

 

Comments: this is no-go scenario. No one in his right mind would advocate such mutual destruction scenario. If the conflict left unstopped the outcome is complete destruction and no winner scenario not to mention deepened and crystallized animosity between the clans which happen to be the building blocks of Somali society.

 

Recommendation: stay tuned. We’ll fisrt exhaust all the possible scenarios.