SOMALIA 2009 - HOW AND WHY RELIGION WORKS

Somalia is being torn apart by religious factions using all the factionalism of that primitive country. Today's New York Times article (May 24, 2009)by Jeffrey Gettleman on the destruction taking place there covers several columns. Only one sentence in the article explains the "Why?" of it.

Peaceful clans, tribes, religious orders, are now engaged in savage total warfare. Jihad against fellow Muslims. The weapons and transportation and training are being supplied from ???? and by ???? These once peaceful poorly educated and poorly fed people are out there with expensive weapons drawing blood from their mirror images. They are chopping off hands and heads with religious zeal, motivation, and righteousness.

How did this happen? How did Darfur, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and all the others happen? Where were these people before they were transformed into religious murderers and by whom were they transformed into religious murderers?

Here's the sentence, the revelation, the rational and motivation for all wars.

"The Sufis, a loosely organized religious brotherhood, also drawing from many different clans, had studiously avoided getting gummed up in Somalia's back-and-forth clan battles, OFTEN NO MORE THAN THIN COVER FOR POWER STRUGGLES BETWEEN BUSINESSMEN AND WARLORDS."

All wars have an economic base and motivation. Perhaps Dick Cheney, former vice-president of the United States, having met with a cabal of oil company magnates, exploiting the ignoramus president George W. Bush and his jingoistic mentality, led the United States into war in Iraq utilizing a THIN COVER for businessmen AND warlords to reap huge profits, the true goal of the war.