US officials hailed the recent triumphs of Islamic militias in Mogadishu as a "boldly counterintuitive strike at the heart of Terrorism". Anonymous sources within the CIA praised the ousting of US-backed secular warlords as a major accomplishment, anticipating that full-scale military actions in Somalia could potentially commence "...within the next few months".
"We're creating repressive Islamist regimes over there, so that they won't try to create them over here.", announced a Senior White House official, "A few months from now, once a Taliban-style government has been successfully established, we'll have them right where we want them.".
There have been murmurs of concern within the White House about a possible "war shortage". Despite concerted efforts to develop new fronts in the
War on Terror, general public apathy, an unpatriotic media, and poor marketting of what were once promissing campaigns in Iran and North Korea have created growing concern within the military industrial complex about a faltering war industry.
While a war in Somalia is unlikely to have the political and economic impact of Iraq, or Afghanistan, "...it'll be worth at least 20 points in the polls, and a few billion in contracts. If you get the timing right, that can win you an election", mused a political consultant who chose to remain anonymous. "A campaign like Somalia is an investment in the future of the War on Terrorism, and an investment in the US economy."
Many had high praise for the engineers of the Somalia campaign, Operation Sandtrap. According to the account of one operative, "We just gave all these secular warlords cash, for an Anti-Terror Campaign. Once they started gearing up, getting better weapons, raping and looting a bit harder, the public started getting worried that they were going to take over. They figured they were being controlled by the Americans. So they put their support behind the Islamists, who then beat the crap out of our warlords and took over. That's when we knew we had them. They're going to be handing out Tenets (a slang reference to the Medal of Freedom) left and right for this one.".
Further details about the campaign can be found in this erroneously titled Washington Post article, "Mistaken Entry Into Clan Dispute Led to U.S. Black Eye in Somalia"