- US policy toward Somalia is anchored in the idea that a unitary
Somalia best stabilizes the country and enables it to secure its
territory. This has been the assumption for generations of policymakers,
but its logic is tenuous. At issue is the demand that Somaliland, the northern third of the
country which has been largely peaceful since 1991, should once again
subordinate itself to the government of and control by Mogadishu. While
it is true that tribe rather than ethnicity separates Somaliland from
the remainder of Somalia, the notion that ethnicity must define state is
nonsense.
Firstly, consider the many examples of ethnicity and language spanning
multiple, distinct states: There are two Romanias (one of which is
called Moldova); two Albanias (one of which is called Kosovo); and more
than 20 Arab states.
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