History Repeats: Sometimes Before it's Done

Ethiopia has now entered the ongoing madness in Somalia (http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/12/26/somalia.ethiopia/index.html). The irony is that they have the blessings of the U.S. What appears to be lost on the Ethiopians are the consequences faced by their blessers in a similar venture in Iraq. To be fair the situation in Somalia affects Ethiopia a whole lot more than Iraq ever affected the U.S. On the other hand it was unclear how big a problem Iraq would be but Somalia is a known hazard.