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<br /> When <keyword id="16945" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Taliban">Taliban</keyword> attacked the <keyword id="275394" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Afghan-parliament">Afghan Parliament</keyword> on Monday to turn down lawmakers’ attempt to find a new <keyword id="194123" type="POSITION" weightage="60" keywordseo="defense-minister">defense minister</keyword> for the country, the whole world looked on in horror. The way Talibanese planned and executed this attack, they send out a clear message to the <keyword id="236314" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Afghanistan-government">Afghanistan government</keyword> that they are against democracy. This attack took us back to December 13, 2001, when <keyword id="145182" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Indian-Parliament">Indian Parliament</keyword> was attacked by a bunch of militants. But, if you think India and Afghanistan are the only countries to have faced such an attack, you should check out this list: <br />
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5 Parliament attacks across the globe that shook everyone

<ul class="summary-list"><li>US President <keyword id="6354484" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Donald-Trump">Donald Trump</keyword> this week attacked <keyword id="6359526" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="military">military</keyword> leaders in order to deflect from reports that he called dead soldiers "losers" and "suckers."</li><li>"They want to do nothing but fight wars, so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy," Trump said.</li><li>But Trump's presidency has been a boon to the so-called military-industrial complex, with his administration dropping bombs at a record pace from Afghanistan to Somalia and by increasing US arms sales to foreign countries.</li></ul><p>"America First" is both a campaign slogan and a flexible iteration of right-wing nationalism, used over decades to justify everything from isolationism in the face of literal Nazis — "<a href="https://www.cfr.org/blog/twe-remembers-charles-lindberghs-des-moines-speech">not our problem</a>" — to invading Iraq in <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1032045279905030875">unilateral defiance</a> of the United Nations and liberal busybodies in Europe.</p><p>The flexibility of the slogan-doctrine is embodied by Donald Trump, a US president who has advocated for war crimes while bashing "forever wars." He has escalated nearly every conflict he inherited while withdrawing troops from peacetime Germany; and all the while calling his generals both "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-called-generals-under-his-command-bunch-of-pussies-book-2020-9">p---ies</a>" and warmongers. His is a foreign policy of erratic militarism, one that disdains any action that reeks of helping others — sometimes mistaken for a principled, noninterventionist mindset — but eager to drop a bomb if it'll play well on American television.</p><p>Outside of a peculiar deference to Russian interests, the only real constant is opportunism: saying, but only sometimes doing, that which seems popular at the moment.</p><p>So, in a jam over reportedly calling dead US soldiers "losers" and "suckers," Trump this week picked up on a tactic adopted by some of his supporters, acting as if the disparaging leaks were merely a byproduct of his war on the deep state. While denying the report, the president who put a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/acting-secdef-mark-esper-in-6-slides-2019-6">defense industry lobbyist</a> in charge of the Pentagon, implied its anonymous sources were only serving the military-industrial complex.</p><p>"They want to do nothing but fight wars," <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-military-tension-says-leaders-want-nothing-but-fight-wars-2020-9">Trump said of US military leaders</a>, "so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy."</p><p>This is an odd line of attack. This US president has increased spending on the US military — and by extension, its suppliers and contractors — <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/04/18/us-military-spending-set-increase-fifth-consecutive-year-nearing-levels-during-height-iraq-war/">each year that he has been in office</a> up to the proposed $705 billion for this year. He has also used that military in a way that benefits the makers of bombs and planes, and by design.</p><p>It only took Trump 48 months to authorize <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47480207">as many drone strikes</a> as Barack Obama did over eight years. Just weeks into his administration, a US airstrike in Syria <a href="https://archive.attn.com/stories/15905/human-rights-expert-says-trump-made-big-mistake">resulted in a massacre</a>: dozens of civilians killed as they worshipped inside of a mosque. That proved just to be the first shot in a ramped US war on terror across Syria and Iraq — one that saw an average of 80 civilian deaths each month, under the previous administration, <a href="https://airwars.org/news-and-investigations/trumps-air-war-kills-12-civilians-per-day/">jump to more than 360</a>.</p><p>In 2019, the president dropped a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/09/04/afghanistan-civilian-casualties-us-airstrikes/?arc404=true">record number of bombs</a> on Afghanistan, in the process <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-09-07/trumps-shameful-rules-of-engagement-are-killing-civilians">killing more civilians</a> than the Taliban, and <a href="https://www.vox.com/world/2019/7/22/20704248/trump-afghanistan-10-days-war">mused</a> about wiping Afghanistan "off the face of the earth." Even a pandemic didn't hinder this administration's propensity to escalate: by April 2020, more US bombs had been dropped on Somalia than in any previous year on record. </p><div type="image" title="GettyImages 941388890" height="1249" width="2500" msid="78063321" hostid="261"></div><p>That's a lot of money for the US defense industry. But expanding a US-led war is not the only way to benefit US arms makers, as Trump himself knows — <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-fueled-war-arms-sales-attacks-military-leaders-for-it-2020-9">he's boasted</a> of selling hundreds of billions of dollars in weapons to Saudi Arabia, furthering its aimless war in Yemen, and asked "US military attaches and diplomats to help drum up billions of dollars more business overseas for the US weapons industry," <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-weapons/exclusive-trump-to-call-on-pentagon-diplomats-to-play-bigger-arms-sales-role-sources-idUSKBN1EX0WX">as Reuters reported in 2018</a>.</p><p>This is indeed one area where Trump has fulfilled a promise. In 2016, the <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/135775/liberals-keep-calling-donald-trump-dove">president campaigned</a> on "bombing the hell" out of suspected terrorists with the help of skyrocketing military budgets; saying he would <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/05/27/trump-said-he-would-take-out-the-families-of-isis-fighters-did-an-airstrike-in-syria-do-just-that/">target the family of a terrorist</a> — women and children — too, and complaining when his intelligence agencies <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-cia-drone-strike-terrorist-families-2018-4">have failed to do so</a>.</p><div type="image" title="GettyImages 1271789333" height="1249" width="2500" msid="78063325" hostid="261"></div><p>But there is an alternate reality, inhabited by some pundits and Republican politicians, where a president who has never been hesitant to inflame a conflict is portrayed as something of a peace activist.</p><p>"President Trump is the first president in a generation to seek to end war rather than start one," US Sen. Rand Paul <a href="https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/rand-paul-2020-rnc-speech-transcript">claimed</a> at the Republican National Convention. "He is bringing our men and women home."</p><p>But if some US troops are now coming back, that's only because President Trump deployed them abroad. In Afghanistan, Trump reversed a drawdown, increasing the number of boots on the ground <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/09/united-states-formally-announces-troop-reduction-iraq-200909123333305.html">from 8,400 to 14,000</a> to accompany his record-breaking campaign of airstrikes.</p><p>In Iraq, Trump's predecessor reduced the number of troops from 177,000 to <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/my-drive">about 5,500</a>; 10 months into the job, Trump had increased that to just under 9,000, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/thousands-us-military-service-members-iraq-syria-believed/story?id=51411555">an increase of 60%</a>. Only after the Iraqi parliament voted to expel foreign troops did Trump, following years of intensified war — and amid a reelection campaign — <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/09/united-states-formally-announces-troop-reduction-iraq-200909123333305.html">announce that he would bring some, but not all, home</a>.</p><div type="image" title="GettyImages 1195630800" height="1250" width="2500" msid="78063327" hostid="261"></div><p>Does Trump deserve credit for "bringing our men and women home?" Yes, if it's qualified with an observation: he's the one who ordered them were away. And bringing them home, not from a war zone but from Germany — while keeping the drone killing machines in the skies, from Africa to Central Asia — speaks to the motivation here: not ending war, to protect human life, but to ending any relationship that isn't based in easily digestible self-interest.</p><p>Military leaders may balk at rupturing traditional alliances, and needing to explain their commander's tweets to colleagues in NATO, but reporting suggests it hasn't been the generals with an itchy air-raid finger.</p><p>"You had to be careful what options you gave him," one former Trump staffer, Joseph Yun, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/06/politics/trump-advisers-fears-military-options/index.html">told CNN</a>, describing fears that the president might start a war, intentionally or not, over North Korea. "We were being very cautious because any options you put out there, he could use them."</p><p>That appears to have been the case with Trump's decision to kill Iranian general (and war criminal) Qasem Soleimani: the decision to violate Iraqi sovereignty may have expedited the removal of US troops, but it was not deeply considered, having been made in a room at Mar-a-Lago. Pentagon officials only gave the option in the hopes that it would make the less aggressive choices seem more palatable, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/04/us/politics/trump-suleimani.html">The New York Times reported</a>. "They didn't think he would take it."</p><p>In professing to oppose war (and the laws governing it), Trump is not so different than any other president; no leader campaigns on their willingness to start one, and every Democrat who ran to replace Trump this year, including the eventual nominee, <a href="https://arcdigital.media/if-you-think-trump-was-ever-a-dove-have-you-considered-instead-the-democratic-party-5528d4e94a89?gi=79449b35b56f">has pledged to reduce overseas adventurism</a>. Few objected to the goal of withdrawing a couple of hundred troops from Syria, for example; the objection was hastily announcing it <a href="https://www.factcheck.org/2019/10/trumps-false-tweets-on-syria/">via tweet</a>, to the mutual benefit of a tyrant in Damascus and a strongman in Turkey (and then <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/17/politics/us-forces-syria-forces-clash/index.html">not really following through</a>).</p><div type="image" title="AP17142644087970" height="1250" width="2500" msid="78063329" hostid="261"></div><p>Some, seeing a Republican convention where isolationist rhetoric was more popular than George W. Bush, might think we have entered a period of political realignment: that Trump, with his attacks on the Iraq war and its architects like John Bolton, and expressed desire to get along with a nuclear-armed Moscow, represents the unlikely side of doves. And Democrats, by not as aggressively pursuing appeasement toward Russia, are now the party of neoconservatism and a new Cold War.</p><p>But Trump's actions in office, which include bad-mouthing Bolton only after he hired him, suggest instead that we have entered a period not of realignment but of shamelessness. Those who boosted the invasion of Iraq can question their opponent's patriotism in one Republican presidency, and pivot, sans apology, <a href="https://twitter.com/charliearchy/status/1303501683406729216">to calling them warmongers</a> in the next. It's an age of saying one thing, doing another, and taking credit or assigning blame based on the political needs of the next 30 minutes — confident that social media limits the public's memory to the last 30 seconds.</p><p>Pay attention for longer than a news cycle, though, and this much becomes clear: that Donald Trump is quite fond of deploying military force, whether at home or abroad, and under his command, the military-industrial complex is doing just fine.</p><p><em>Have a news tip? Email this reporter: <a href="mailto:cdavis@insider.com">cdavis@insider.com</a></em></p>

Trump's waging a phony war against the military-industrial complex

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>A US drone strike in southern Somalia has killed Adnan Garaar, a leader of the al-Shabaab militant group, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.</p><p>The March 12 strike hit a vehicle carrying Garaar, a top al Shabaab official suspected of masterminding the 2013 attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi that killed 67, the Pentagon said in a statement.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/al-shabaab">Al Shabaab</a> is one of Africa's largest and most powerful Al Qaeda affiliates. The group controls remote areas of southern Somalia and has pulled off deadly attacks in Kenya and Uganda as well.</p><p>The Westgate assault targeted a shopping mall in an upscale Nairobi neighborhood, and is the group's highest-profile external attack to date. The attack drew added <keyword id="6356001" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="international">international</keyword> attention to the group, and about a year later, Ahmed Godane, Shabaab's domineering leader, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/us-confirms-al-shabaab-leader-is-dead-2014-9">was killed in a US airstrike</a>.</p><p>But Godane's death hasn't completley stopped Shabaab. Since then, the group has assassinated members of parliament, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/al-shabaab-detonates-car-bomb-in-mogadishu-2015-2">launched a deadly attack</a> on a hotel in Mogadishu, and <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/23/opinion/menkhaus-shabaab-threats/">triggered a panic</a> in the US over possible attacks on American shopping malls. The group's operational capabilities - and its ability to spread fear - have remained intact. </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">The drone strike on Garaar comes shortly after Nigeria's Boko Haram </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"></span><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/isis-accepted-boko-haram-pledge-2015-3">pledged allegiance to ISIS</a><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">, raising the specter of a potential competition between ISIS and Al Qaeda for the loyalty of jihadist groups in Africa.</span></p><p class="tagline"><div id="categorypromo" style="border:1px solid silver; min-height:114px; padding:4px;"><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/intelligence/research-store?IR=T&amp;utm_source=House&amp;utm_term=CtgrPr-Drones&amp;utm_campaign=CtgrPr#!/THE-DRONES-REPORT/p/47962272/category=11987294"></a><strong> Get THE DRONES REPORT now!</strong> Commercial drones are already a reality. <strong>BI Intelligence</strong> takes an in-depth look at the most important aspects, including market forecasts for commercial applications, regulatory process, and the leading players.  <strong><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/intelligence/research-store?IR=T&amp;utm_source=House&amp;utm_term=CtgrPr-Drones&amp;utm_campaign=CtgrPr#!/THE-DRONES-REPORT/p/47962272/category=11987294">Get the Report Here »</a></strong></div></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trailer-point-and-shoot-documentary-libyan-revolution-2015-2">This 26-year-old from Baltimore took a 35,000-mile road trip and ended up fighting in the Libyan revolution</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="szNGZoczpV6FOp_YiVp_j5fNW4DvFIZ8" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

A US drone strike has killed the mastermind of the Westgate Mall massacre

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"></div><p></p></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Pentagon has </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"></span><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/pentagon-al-shabab-leader-ahmed-abdi-godane-killed-25263449">confirmed</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that Ahmed Godane was killed in the U.S. airstrike that targeted the Al Shabaab leader on September 2nd. Godane was in charge of one of Al Qaeda's most dangerous affiliates, a group that mutated from a local insurgency to a trans-national jihadist movement capable of striking beyond Somalia's borders and attracting foreign fighters from around the world.</span></p>
<p class="p1">"Godane's removal is a major symbolic and operational loss to the largest al-Qaida affiliate in Africa," White House Press Secretary Josh Ernest said in a statement released on September 5th.</p>
<p>Shabaab <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/09/world/africa/somalia-shabaab-qaeda/">pledged allegiance to Al Qaeda</a> in February of 2012. Since then, Shabaab has been repelled from <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">most of Somalia's major cities, while still pulling off terrorist attacks in Kenya and Djibouti and throughout Somalia as well. Shabaab is responsible for some of the largest and highest-profile terrorist attacks in East Africa, bombing several World Cup watch parties in the Ugandan capital of Kampala in 2010, and killing scores of people in an assault on an upscale Nairobi shopping mall in September of 2013.</span></p>
<p>Godane, who had been consolidating power within Al Shabaab in recent years, pushed the group towards ever more ambitious acts of terrorism. Most recently, they had <a href="http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFKBN0G148D20140801">promised to kill every single member of Somalia's parliament</a>; Shabaab has assasinated <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201409031702.html">six lawmakers</a> in 2014.</p>
<p>Godane's death has the potential to fracture the group - he wasn't grooming a successor, and has spent the past few years wiping out his internal enemies.</p>
<p>But his death won't end terrorism in a still-chaotic Somalia, and Shabaab has been alarmingly resilient in the face of over a half-decade of <keyword id="6356001" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="international">international</keyword> efforts to defeat it. Even without the leadership of one of the major terrorist figures in Africa, the group still has a large safe-haven in a country whose nascent government has had to depend on U.S. airstrikes and a <a href="http://amisom-au.org/">large African Union military coalition</a> to maintain order.</p>
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Pentagon Confirms That The Head Of Africa's Largest Al Qaeda Affiliate Was Killed In A US Airstrike

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"></div><p></p></div>Some of the most significant news in <keyword id="6356001" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="international">international</keyword> terrorism this week happened far away from Iraq and Syria. On September 2nd, a U.S. airstrike <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/02/us-usa-somalia-shabaab-idUSKBN0GX01L20140902">targeted Ahmed Abdi Godane</a>, the head of Al Shabaab, the brutal Al Qaeda affiliate that once controlled much of Somalia. It's unknown if he survived the strike or not, and neither the U.S. nor Al Shabaab have confirmed his death. But it's the closest the U.S. has come to eliminating the terrorist leader since putting a multi-million dollar bounty on his head in 2012.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In recent years, Godane had consolidated power, dissolving Shabaab's Shura council and turning the group's secret police into its primary organizing mechanism. As analyst Abdi Aynte </span><a href="http://www.heritageinstitute.org/shabaab-after-godane/">explained</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> in an article for the Mogadishu-based </span><a href="http://www.heritageinstitute.org/">Heritage Institute for Policy Studies</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, Godane wasn't grooming a successor, and his quest for absolute control had left the group inflexible and weak. "</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Without Godane as its leader," Aynte writes, "it is difficult to imagine al-Shabaab remaining a cohesive entity."</span></p>
<p>Even so, Al Shabaab has followed an erratic lifecycle, one that serves as a pessimistic commentary on the possibility of total victory against ambitious and deeply entrenched terrorist groups.</p>
<p>Al Shabaab coalesced after the 2006 U.S.-backed Ethiopian invasion that overthrew the conservative-Islamist Islamic Courts Union, which had set itself up as a de-facto government amidst Somalia's ongoing stateless vacuum. By 2009, an African Union peacekeeping mission was confined to a triangular area between Mogadishu's airport, seaport, and primary government buildings. The rest of the Somali capital, along with hundreds of miles of strategically-vital coastline, was under Shabaab control.</p>
<p>The group's fight against what it portrayed as the invading armies of majority-Christian nations, and its success in holding and defending territory made Somalia a magnet for foreign jihadists. The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/31/world/africa/shabab-identify-american-as-bomber-in-somalia-attack.html">first documented American suicide bomber</a> blew himself up in the service of Al Shabaab in 2011; Omar al-Hamami, one of the <a href="http://www.wired.com/2013/04/omar-hammami/all/">most infamous American jihadists in history</a>, fought for Shabaab, which killed him during an ongoing internal dispute in 2013.</p>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container float_left"><div class="image"></div><p></p></div>Perhaps most significantly, Shabaab succeeded in transforming itself from a local insurgency into a trans-national jihadist group, killing scores of people in its first major attack outside Somalia - a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/11/uganda-bomb-world-cup_n_642336.html">bombing in Kampala, Uganda</a> during the World Cup in 2010.</p>
<p>Then the Somali famine hit between 2010 and 2012, and Shabaab prohibited international aid organizations from entering hunger-stricken areas.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-22380352">Over 250,000 people died</a> in one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes of the 21st century - one that Shabaab exacerbated. The famine, and Shabaab's harsh restrictions on areas under its control, caused several of Somalia's major clans to turn on the group, and created the opportunity for the African Union coalition to reclaim territory.</p>
<p>By late 2011, most Mogadishu was under AU control. In 2012, an internationally recognized Somali government ruled from the city for the first time in nearly twenty years. </p>
<p>Al Shabaab has been fractured and pushed back, its advance curtailed by infighting, opposition from the local population, and a large conventional force backed with Kenyan (and occasionally American) air support. That's turned the group from a territorial power into an insurgency, but it hasn't stopped it from terrorizing the Horn of Africa.</p>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image"><a title_source="REUTERS" title_caption="" class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5408b91f69bedd87089d3031-960/screen shot 2014-09-04 at 3.09.52 pm.png"><span class="sprites click-to-enlarge-icon" title="Click to enlarge"></span></a><p class="source"><span>REUTERS</span></p></div><p></p></div></div>Shabaab has a large inland safe haven and a proven ability to strike throughout its neighborhood. It pulled off <a href="http://warontherocks.com/2014/06/al-shabaab-strikes-in-djibouti/#_">a bombing in Djibouti</a> in May 2014, and mounted a devastating <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-24189116">large-scale shooting attack</a> at an upscale mall in Nairobi in September 2013. Shabaab is also widely suspected for <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/07/shooting-reported-kenyan-coastal-region-2014760136961248.html">a series of attacks</a> on Kenyan resort cities throughout 2014.</p>
<p>In August of 2013, Doctors Without Borders took <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/15/world/africa/doctors-without-borders-to-pull-out-of-somalia.html">the nearly unprecedented step of shuttering its operations</a> in the country, several years after the group's territorial high-water mark.</p>
<p>Within Somalia, Shabaab has promised to <a href="http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFKBN0G148D20140801">kill off every member of the country's parliament one by one</a>. It's <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201409031702.html">killed six so far in 2014</a>, including Saado Warsame, a former pop singer and one of the parliament's most high-profile female members. It's thrived because of a weak central state that's incapable of defeating it, and contraband networks that allow the group to replenish its coffers.</p>
<p>Aynte <a href="http://www.heritageinstitute.org/shabaab-after-godane/">argues</a> that Godane's death could greatly curtail Shabaab. But the group's history provides some cautionary lessons for international decision-makers looking for a way forward against the even more menacing terrorist pseudo-state a couple thousand miles to the north, in Iraq and Syria.</p>
<p>Shabaab was only weakened because of a sustained African Union mission in which hundreds of soldiers from neighboring countries were killed. It needed a shift in local attitudes - and a degree of U.S. air support - to finally succeed. And even then, "success" in Somalia meant the establishment of a weak and struggling government in Mogadishu, along with Shabaab's transformation into a virulent insurgency capable of striking beyond Somalia's borders.</p>
<p>If ISIS follows Shabaab's trajectory, the group will constantly morph, remaining dangerous even as its fortunes fade and its structure and nature change. And the effort to defeat it will take years of international vigilance, and locally driven reversals that outside players can't fully predict or control.</p>

The Long Fight Against Al Shabaab Provides A Sobering Reminder About ISIS

Only Nixon could go to China, and maybe only Trump can end the war in Afghanistan

<div><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.5em;">A wonderful map created by William Samari, Ray Yamartino, and Rafaan Anvari of <a href="http://thedoghousediaries.com/">DogHouseDiares</a> illustrates </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.5em;">what every country does better than every other country.</span></div>
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<div><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.5em;"><span>They </span><a href="http://thedoghousediaries.com/maplesyrup">collected the information</a> from various sources and </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.5em;">sprinkled in some quirkier rankings </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.5em;">since many countries led the world in multiple things.</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></div>
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<p>"Myanmar leads the world in 'Speaking Burmese.'  That's kind of a silly thing but still true," Anvari told BI. "UK leads in fascist movements, but that's all movements in history, not active movements."</p>
<p>(Some of the categories are hard to read so we published the full list below the map.)</p>
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<td><strong>Leads World In…</strong></td>
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<div><strong>Measure</strong></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Afghanistan</td>
<td>opium</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Albania</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Algeria</td>
<td>middle paleolithic flake tool techniques</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Andorra</td>
<td>reading</td>
<td>rate</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Angola</td>
<td>speaking umbundu</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Antarctica</td>
<td>emperor penguins</td>
<td>endemic</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Antigua and Barbuda</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Argentina</td>
<td>exporting soccer players</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Armenia</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Australia</td>
<td>deadly animals and melanoma</td>
<td>total and per 100,000 people</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Austria</td>
<td>mohnflesserl</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Azerbaijan</td>
<td>software piracy</td>
<td>avg per computer</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Bahamas</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Bahrain</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Bangladesh</td>
<td>peacekeeping</td>
<td>total and per 100,000 people</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Barbados</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Belarus</td>
<td>wisents</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Belgium</td>
<td>relaxing</td>
<td>%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Belize</td>
<td>destroying the ozone</td>
<td>per capita</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Benin</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Bhutan</td>
<td>farming</td>
<td>%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Bolivia</td>
<td>brazil nuts</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Bosnia and Herzegovina</td>
<td>having land mines</td>
<td>total per sq mi</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Botswana</td>
<td>diamonds</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Brazil</td>
<td>making coffee</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Brunei</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Bulgaria</td>
<td>living the american dream</td>
<td>rate</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Burkina Faso</td>
<td>illiteracy</td>
<td>rate</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Burundi</td>
<td>unsatisfied</td>
<td>index</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cambodia</td>
<td>long alphabet</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cameroon</td>
<td>killer lakes</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Canada</td>
<td>maple syrup and asteroid impacts</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cape Verde</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Central African Republic</td>
<td>expensive internet</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Chad</td>
<td>not wasting electricity</td>
<td>per capita</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Chile</td>
<td>staying married</td>
<td>crude divorce rate (per capita)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>China</td>
<td>co2 emissions and renewable energy</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Colombia</td>
<td>rain</td>
<td>avg</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Comoros</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Congo, Democratic Republic of</td>
<td>pygmy chimpanzees</td>
<td>endemic</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Congo, Republic of</td>
<td>saving energy</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Costa Rica</td>
<td>happiness</td>
<td>index</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)</td>
<td>malaria</td>
<td>deaths per 100,000 people</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Croatia</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cuba</td>
<td>baseball</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cyprus</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Czech Republic</td>
<td>beer consumption</td>
<td>per capita</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Denmark</td>
<td>education</td>
<td>index</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Djibouti</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Dominica</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Dominican Republic</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ecuador</td>
<td>endangering plants</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Egypt</td>
<td>africa cup of nations</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>El Salvador</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Equatorial Guinea</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Eritrea</td>
<td>african cycling</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Estonia</td>
<td>prevalence of women</td>
<td>sex ratio (total)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ethiopia</td>
<td>employing children</td>
<td>percent</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Federated States of Micronesia</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Fiji</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Finland</td>
<td>drinking coffee</td>
<td>per capita</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>France</td>
<td>tourism</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Gabon</td>
<td>sun-tailed monkeys</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Gambia</td>
<td>not spending money on military</td>
<td>total reserves</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Georgia</td>
<td>khachapuri</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Germany</td>
<td>almost winning the world cup</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ghana</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Greece</td>
<td>olive oil consumption</td>
<td>per capita</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Greenland</td>
<td>personal space</td>
<td>pop per sq mi</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Grenada</td>
<td>olympic medals</td>
<td>per capita</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Guatemala</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Guinea-Bissau</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Guyana</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Haiti</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Honduras</td>
<td>homocide</td>
<td>rate</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Hong Kong</td>
<td>high IQ</td>
<td>avg</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Hungary</td>
<td>canoeing</td>
<td>total and total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Iceland</td>
<td>penetrating the internet</td>
<td>percent</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>India</td>
<td>movies and low prices</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Indonesia</td>
<td>volcanoes</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Iran</td>
<td>brain drain</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Iraq</td>
<td>not safe for journalists</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ireland</td>
<td>quality of life</td>
<td>score</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Israel</td>
<td>r&amp;d</td>
<td>% of gdp</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Italy</td>
<td>UEFA competitions</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Jamaica</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Japan</td>
<td>robots</td>
<td>per 10,000 manufactoring workers</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Jordan</td>
<td>large falafel balls</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Kazakhstan</td>
<td>uranium</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Kenya</td>
<td>flowers</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Kiribati</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Kuwait</td>
<td>highest valued currency</td>
<td>exchange rate</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Kyrgyzstan</td>
<td>walnut forests</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Laos</td>
<td>solar energy</td>
<td>per capita</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Latvia</td>
<td>eco-friendly</td>
<td>index</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lebanon</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lesotho</td>
<td>mortality</td>
<td>rate</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Liberia</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Libya</td>
<td>heat</td>
<td>avg</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Liechtenstein</td>
<td>teachers</td>
<td>per capita</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Lithuania</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Luxembourg</td>
<td>generosity</td>
<td>per capita</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Macedonia</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Madagascar</td>
<td>lemurs</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Malawi</td>
<td>malawisaurus</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Malaysia</td>
<td>caves</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Maldives</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mali</td>
<td>kulicoro firefinches</td>
<td>endemic</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Malta</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Marshall Islands</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mauritania</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mauritius</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mexico</td>
<td>getting struck by lightning, cartels and boxing</td>
<td>total and total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Moldova</td>
<td>alcohol consumption</td>
<td>per capita</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Monaco</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mongolia</td>
<td>velociraptor bones</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Montenegro</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Morocco</td>
<td>couscous</td>
<td>none</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mozambique</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Myanmar</td>
<td>speaking burmese</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Namibia</td>
<td>wealth inequality</td>
<td>wealth gini</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Nepal</td>
<td>not killing themselves</td>
<td>per 100,000 people per year</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Netherlands</td>
<td>tall people</td>
<td>avg male and female height</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>New Zealand</td>
<td>sheep and rugby</td>
<td>totaland total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Nicaragua</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Niger</td>
<td>making babies</td>
<td>births per woman</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Nigeria</td>
<td>yams</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>North Korea</td>
<td>censorship</td>
<td>index</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Norway</td>
<td>democracy</td>
<td>index</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Oman</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Pacific</td>
<td>white shark cafe</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Pakistan</td>
<td>field hockey</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Palau</td>
<td>swimming with jellyfish</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Palestinian Territory</td>
<td>not having cancer</td>
<td>per 100,000 people per year</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Panama</td>
<td>defenselessness</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Papua New Guinea</td>
<td>linguistic diversity</td>
<td>index</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Paraguay</td>
<td>drinking tea</td>
<td>per capita</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Peru</td>
<td>sandboarding</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Philippines</td>
<td>social media</td>
<td>percent</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Poland</td>
<td>kielbasa</td>
<td>subjective</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Portugal</td>
<td>graduating high school</td>
<td>rate</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Puerto Rico</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Qatar</td>
<td>GDP</td>
<td>per capita</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Romania</td>
<td>download speed</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Russia</td>
<td>raspberries and nuclear warheads</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Rwanda</td>
<td>women in parliament</td>
<td>% of seats held</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>San Marino</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sao Tome and Principe</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Saudi Arabia</td>
<td>oil</td>
<td>total reserves</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Senegal</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Serbia</td>
<td>water polo</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Seychelles</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sierra Leone</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Singapore</td>
<td>science</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Slovakia</td>
<td>making cars</td>
<td>per capita</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Slovenia</td>
<td>casinos</td>
<td>per 1,000 inhabitants</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Solomon Islands</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Somalia</td>
<td>pirates</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>South Africa</td>
<td>ostrich</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>South Korea</td>
<td>workaholics</td>
<td>hrs per year per person</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>South Sudan</td>
<td>inflation</td>
<td>rate</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Spain</td>
<td>organ donation</td>
<td>rate</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sri Lanka</td>
<td>cinnamon</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sudan</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Suriname</td>
<td>forests</td>
<td>percent</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Swaziland</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sweden</td>
<td>atheism</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Switzerland</td>
<td>employment</td>
<td>rate</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Syria</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Taiwan</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Tajikistan</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Tanzania</td>
<td>national parks and wildlife</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Thailand</td>
<td>rice exports</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Timor-Leste</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Togo</td>
<td>bad driving</td>
<td>road death per 100,000 cars</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Tonga</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Trinidad and Tobago</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Tunisia</td>
<td>gun control</td>
<td>per capita</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Turkey</td>
<td>apricots</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Turkmenistan</td>
<td>corruption</td>
<td>index</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Uganda</td>
<td>young people</td>
<td>median age</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ukraine</td>
<td>population control</td>
<td>percent</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>United Arab Emirates</td>
<td>prevalence of men</td>
<td>sex ratio (total)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>United Kingdom</td>
<td>fascist movements</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Uruguay</td>
<td>eating beef</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>USA</td>
<td>falling off beds and chairs, getting killed by lawnmowers, nobel laureates and eating hot dogs</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Uzbekistan</td>
<td>being double landlocked</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Vanuatu</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Vatican City</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Venezuela</td>
<td>miss universe</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Vietnam</td>
<td>economic growth</td>
<td>index</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Western Australia (ocean)</td>
<td>deadly shark attacks</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Western Sahara</td>
<td>-</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Yemen</td>
<td>gender gap</td>
<td>index</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Zambia</td>
<td>rhodesian giraffe</td>
<td>index</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Zimbabwe</td>
<td>commercial bank prime lending rate</td>
<td>total</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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