{"id":275903,"date":"2021-08-15T19:26:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T19:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=190591"},"modified":"2021-08-15T19:26:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T19:26:59","slug":"in-somalia-the-us-is-bombing-the-very-terrorists-it-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/15\/in-somalia-the-us-is-bombing-the-very-terrorists-it-created\/","title":{"rendered":"In Somalia, The US Is Bombing The Very \u2018Terrorists\u2019 It Created"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0official reason\u00a0provided by the Pentagon was that the Somali National Army needed air support in its operations to counter al-Shabaab. But the actual reason was that Somalia is geo-strategically important to US empire. Successive US administrations have cycled through a myriad of excuses to either bomb the country or to arm its dictators: Cold War politics, \u201chumanitarian intervention,\u201d anti-piracy, and more recently counterterrorism.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/in-somalia-the-us-is-bombing-the-very-terrorists-it-created\/\">In Somalia, The US Is Bombing The Very \u2018Terrorists\u2019 It Created<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/in-somalia-the-us-is-bombing-the-very-terrorists-it-created\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0official reason\u00a0provided by the Pentagon was that the Somali National Army needed air support in its operations to counter al-Shabaab. But the actual reason was that Somalia is geo-strategically important to US empire. Successive US administrations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5722,445,7988,5724],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275943,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275903\/revisions\/275943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}