In perpetual war America, don't forget Somalia

While most Americans are vaguely aware of our ghastly abetting of Saudi Arabia's criminal destruction of Yemen, few know America is waging murderous war in Somalia, Yemen's small neighbor across the Gulf of Aden. Somalia's fifteen million desperate souls are ducking thousands of US bombs dropped to obliterate bad guys in America's latest enemy de jour: al-Shabab. Likely not one in a million has heard of al-Shabab, much less lies awake at night fearing their imminent approach to the Homeland. This latest US enemy, which sounds more like a meal at a Middle Eastern restaurant, has incurred triple the number of airstrikes in 2017, and after a slight uptick in 2018, is on track to triple again this year. Nearly a thousand Somalis are dead and amazingly, according to US officials, not a single civilian among them. But investigators from Amnesty International now charge that at least 14 civilians were killed in just 5 of a hundred US attacks there in the past 2 years. Will any US official be called to answer for war crimes in Somalia? Based on artful US dodging of war crime charges in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Pakistan, Niger, Yemen and Syria, the chances are....zero.