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| | Harold G. Marcus, President Aidid’s Somalia |
 | | Howe failed to understand that Aidid, of all of Somalia’s politicians, was the most consistent nationalist and that he was not going to stand aside and allow his country to become an experiment in state building by those ignorant of its political and cultural traditions. |
 | | The president repeatedly pointed out that since the establishment of the transitional government, there has been peace in Somalia except for minor clashes as the new civil administration consolidates its authority, restores taxation, and returns to regions which have been anarchic since 1991. |
 | | Somalia, along with Liberia, Mozambique, Angola, and Rwanda, seems to be giving the lie to those racist critics who argued that Africa’s problems were so intractable that only recolonization would solve them. |
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