Didja Know

...that the US Navy is patrolling the coast of Somalia right now? Don't you think that'd be something that would hit the American press instead of just the BBC?

US naval forces have deployed off the Somali coast to prevent leaders of defeated Islamist militias escaping.

Kenya has also significantly tightened border security to stop an influx of fleeing fighters, as aid agencies called for help for genuine refugees.

Uganda's president is travelling to Ethiopia to discuss forming an African force to stabilise the country.

The State Department confirmed this, so it isn't hearsay.

I'm not necessarily against this, I just wish I could live in this country and know about our various instances of gunboat diplomacy. And between patrolling the coast and sealing the Kenyan border, and martial law in the capital, the number of guns in and around Somalia right now speak to a potentially violent end here. The window of opportunity for the implementation of peacekeeping forces and an actual governmental solution is narrowing with each passing day.