A Somali radical Islamic insurgent says weapons and ammunition the United States recently supplied to Somalia's embattled government will only increase violence in the war-wracked country.
Sheik Hassan Ya'qub, a spokesman for the militant group al-Shabab in the port town of Kismayo, was responding to an announcement by U.S. officials last week that the Obama administration had supplied arms and provided military training worth just under $10 million to the shaky official government.
So where are the concerned Leftists over here decrying our promotion of violence? This has been a common enough argument against our interventions in the past.
And truth be told, our aid to the government, such as it is, will increase violence. That is, if we did nothing and just let the better armed and more determined jihadis win, the fighting would end.
Resisting evil (not to imply the government is, objectively, good) means more violence. In such cases, more violence is a good thing. Let the meddling continue.
