Thursday 28 February 2013

An open letter to President Hassan Sh. Mahamoud


By Said Faadi
Feb 28, 2013


Congratulations are in order to you, Mr. President, for the modicum success your government has so far attained. The resuscitation of the diplomatic image in the global space tops on your scorecard.

For decades, our country has been absent from the international arenas for the wrong reasons. The country has indeed reached on the verge of succumbing into that ‘primal state of nature’ which brings to mind the writing of the great English Philosopher, Thomas Hobbes. Writing in the midst of his country’s bloody civil war, Hobbes once described this state of anarchy as a war of “all against all” that makes life ’solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short’.  Nothing defines better the situation our country than this ‘Hobbian state’.  Somalia’s diplomatic relation with the rest of the world was not spared either. It has been at best moribund.

For many, it’s like a dream come true to see an “elected” Somali president standing side by side with the world leaders. Recent media snapshots, which depicted you “dining” with the American President Barak Obama and later with the British Prime Minister David Cameron, have been received with much ado. Those who are old enough may recollect the historic visit of the democratically elected president of Somalia, Dr. Abdirashid Ali Sharmake to the Whitehouse in the 1960s. 

Hurrah! You have also purchased significant diplomatic points from your impressive address to the top echelon of European supranational state MPs in Brussels, and the recently concluded meeting of the OIC in Cairo. It was a splendid performance in the diplomatic foray – Well done, Sir. Continued

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