Ridding Somalia of Pirates: Hard Choices for the West

Somali piracy is not a "waterborne disease", U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told a gathering of more than 60 governments in Brussels last week. The solution to the problem lies on land, in the establishment of a Somali government deemed legitimate by its citizenry and capable of enforcing its writ. World leaders appear to heed Ban's advice, and they pledged $213 million in aid to rebuild the Somali government and its security forces. But success in the effort will depend in no small part on foreign powers avoiding repeats of earlier efforts to reimpose order on the chaos of Somalia — most recently in the course of the Bush Administration's "war on terror..more..http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1894395,00.html