Here we go again. According to the Los Angeles Times, the United States is responsible for the rise of religious extremism and the al Qaeda-linked Shabaab terror group. If we just hadn’t targeted the well-meaning, though slightly radical, Islamic Courts Union, everything in Somalia would be just wonderful — or so the Times would have you believe. Sure, there would be a Taliban-like region in the Horn of Africa, but they’d have security. And certainly there would be no ties to al Qaeda!