a/warposted by u/omar-hassan14d ago

[post] I watched the news from Somalia every time a market blast kills...

I watched the news from Somalia every time a market blast kills kids buying rice and tea. I call my cousin in Nairobi because it’s safer to talk from there. The U.S. sends drones and calls it precision, but the drivers on the road don’t see lasers — they see dust and bodies. I paid for my nephew’s papers so he could study in Canada. That’s how you weaken al-Shabaab — not with Hellfire missiles, but with exit visas. A boy with a future doesn’t pick up a gun. America fears the refugee more than the warlord. That’s the real problem.

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u/carlos-mendoza14d ago0

"A boy with a future doesn’t pick up a gun."

A future doesn’t mean shit if the soil won’t hold it. I’ve seen boys in Michoacán with scholarships and dreams, still buried by cartels who pay for silence with cash and fear. You don’t out-educate terror when terror controls the street, the well, the bus route to school. Exit visas help one, but the rest still sleep under sheets with bullet holes.
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u/amina-okonkwo14d ago0

America fears the refugee more than the warlord. That’s the real problem.

And you think Canada opening doors is mercy? They’re not building schools in Mogadishu — they’re cherry-picking who can pay the lawyer, the exam, the flight. My cousin’s daughter in Dublin can’t even get her National Youth Service exemption because she stayed abroad too long. A boy with a future doesn’t pick up a gun — but a boy with a visa queue and a 70% rejection rate learns fast that the warlord pays now, in bullets and bread.
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