Did anyone really expect a different outcome? Did any same forumer really expect an ALS victory?
One good thing in this is that Kenyans will realise an army isn't a ceremonial parade ground force and needs a proper budget. Hopefully the defense allocation can increase-our region isn't a safe one! At any one time there is at least one major insurgency/low level war/serious instability ongoing between the Horn and the Great Lakes.
Quote:The winners are of course the Southern Somali people freed from terror who may now establish a new state,Azania,the Kenya government which has now protected its eastern flank (and the 23 bn$ trans continental Lamu port project a scant 10 km from Somalia) from terrorists and the KDF. They followed the basic maxim of any military force,viz,don't lose a war, receiving praise from hitherto unimportant quarters;Kenyan civilians have never understood their role til this operation and in this new constitutional dispensation the KDF won't have to fight too hard to receive their allocations.
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