Afghanistan Part II
Afghanistan Part II:
The Reoccurrence of International Terrorism in Somalia
by Joe Royo
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Recent events in Somalia are slowly grabbing the world’s attention. Is the world paying attention, though? In the 1990s another country followed a similarly dysfunctional pattern — Afghanistan. There are lessons to be learned from the way Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in 1996 to how the al Shabaab terrorist network may be trying to seize Somalia. We should not only pay attention to the clues. We should act on those clues. The conditions are ripe to do something about it now. If something is not done now, we may be replaying what happened in Afghanistan with the Taliban all over again.
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Major Joe Royo is a U.S. Army Special Forces Officer assigned to the Special Operations Training Detachment, part of the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, LA. He recently served with the 3rd Special Forces Group and has multiple combat rotations to Afghanistan and Iraq as well as experience in Pakistan. He holds a MA in Diplomacy from Norwich University.
