Somalia - Life In and Around the Zone of Destruction

This is a pass-along for Journeyman Picture.  Here's a slice from the YouTube caption:

For 18 years Somalia has been at war with itself. Weve really seen everything: hunger, death, everything, says one Somalian, looking at the ruins of capital Mogadishu. With the city embroiled in a turf war, and civilians constantly caught in the crossfire, 18 000 shell-shocked Somalians have fled. The bullet went in her neck, she cant move says one nurse about a 12-year-old girl in this Somalian hospital. They have space for 80 patients here yet they treat over 200, despite threats from Islamist insurgents accusing the doctors of treating unbelievers

Journeyman Pictures.  "Life Despite War - Somalia."  YouTube, October 26, 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VApA1wv3S9s

I've heard that "people will disappoint you," but I've learned too that people will surprise you with their inherent goodness.

Some journalists have put their conclusions ahead of their questions, e.g., coming up with bold statements like "Why they hate us," but look carefully and closely into the civil wars hosted within Islam and one may find more of love and courage than hate, but it is certainly an inflammable arrogance mixed with hate that plants the bombs and drives the bullets.

There's plenty about which to chat from Journeyman's 8-minute window on the misery wrought by Somalia's 18 years of political anarchy mixed in the past few (at least) with militant egos armed to the teeth and marching behind the various shields of religous zealotry.

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