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Mohamed Aden Suleiman, a U.S.-trained battalion commander from Somalia’s elite Danab Brigade, died fighting Western-oriented, democratic Somaliland last weekend. The confirmation of his death comes less than a week after the U.S. Embassy bragged about its investment in the Danab Brigade and almost four months after China-backed Somalia attacked one of only two countries in Africa to embrace Taiwan. The Pentagon had trained that unit to fight al Shabaab terrorists.
A decade ago, the Benghazi failure loomed large, and critics increasingly asked then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton what she had accomplished over her four-year tenure. She embraced Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and declared that Somalia was on the rebound. It was an exaggeration. Then as now, a small handful of appointed elites selected rather than elected the Somali government. It was the world’s most corrupt government. Warlordism remained rife.
