{"id":8700,"date":"2022-08-24T18:22:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T18:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8700"},"modified":"2022-08-24T18:22:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T18:22:42","slug":"biden-sought-to-end-endless-wars-so-whats-the-military-doing-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8700","title":{"rendered":"Biden sought to end endless wars. So what\u2019s the military doing in Somalia?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;in May 2022, Biden agreed to send&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/16\/us\/politics\/biden-military-somalia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">about 500 US troops to Somalia<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those troops will return to Somalia soon to fight the extremist group al-Shabaab as the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/africa\/20220516-hassan-sheikh-mohamud-elected-president-of-somali-for-second-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">resurrected government<\/a>&nbsp;of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (HSM) deepens ties to Washington and seeks the support and legitimacy provided by the American military. But on a deeper level, this US deployment represents the continuity of the so-called war on terrorism in spite of Biden\u2019s best efforts to end it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congress has not approved a new resolution for the use of military force abroad, and the Biden administration says it is sending troops to Somalia under the 2001 authorization that Congress passed after the September 11, 2001, attacks to target al-Qaeda \u2014 and that has been used in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/papers\/2021\/2001AUMF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">85 countries<\/a>&nbsp;as the basis for military activities.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/23204510\/somalia-us-troops-return-shabaab-biden\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/23204510\/somalia-us-troops-return-shabaab-biden<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;in May 2022, Biden agreed to send about 500 US troops to Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>Those troops will return to Somalia soon to fight the extremist group al-Shabaab as the resurrected government of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (HSM) deepens ties to Washington and seeks the support and legitimacy provided by the American military. But on a deeper level, this US deployment represents the continuity of the so-called war on terrorism in spite of Biden\u2019s best efforts to end it.<\/p>\n<p>Congress has not approved a new resolution for the use of military force abroad, and the Biden administration says it is sending troops to Somalia under the 2001 authorization that Congress passed after the September 11, 2001, attacks to target al-Qaeda \u2014 and that has been used in 85 countries as the basis for military activities.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[272,355,314,780,259,1171,619,158],"class_list":["post-8700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-joe-biden","tag-military","tag-somalia","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8701,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8700\/revisions\/8701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}