Mogadishu is pronounced more like "moga-DISH[u]" with the final 'u' unvoiced: our journalists might pronounce it differently than the inhabitants and that mistaken Westernized name might be the legally correct one. After all, we do the naming and the labeling and the category-tagging, I guess that's because we have a use for the names while the people who live (if that it can be called) in Moga'dISH's housing, if it can be called that, have, well, you have to admit it, but they don't have much at all. Much that doesn't belong to us, that is.
They say that every cloud has a limned filigree halo. They say that birth confers equal opportunity. They say that these people are terrorists and Jihadis and any help will be syphoned off to fund atrocities and piracy, while they bankroll precisely those extremists in a futile failure of an 'uprising' against Gadaffi by targeting pretty much every building in Tripoli except the huge and obviously militarized compound in which Muammar pitches his tent.
It's true that there is much piracy in the waters near Somalia. Piracy was something one had imagined having had its demise around the same time as Will Wilburforce abolished the trading of slaves. Not so, it seems. Then, we did feed ourselves a tiny little lie about slavery too, didn't we? Sure, the trade was abolished, but slavery is alive and kicking against its fetters.
We compensated with a new, more civilized, paradigm, in which the raw materials, extracted by hand by slaves, are shipped to any conveniently cooperative state with plenty of cheap, disposable, people who are so desperate that they'll smile when they learn there's twenty dollars a week to be had by repetitively fitting one meaningless component into another, ten hours a day, six days a week. When enough components have been so fitted a batch of dirt-cheap tech complete with built-in obsolescence gratis is shipped from the land of assembly lines where its price is quadrupled and it is presented to us as a 'necessity' and a 'right.' We never abolished slavery, we simply kept the slaves where they were born.
Have you ever thought about the choices one has to be faced with to decide that piracy is a decent way of life?
