International Ships sailing more than 400 nautical miles from Somali waters such as Sirius Star are hijacked for ransom; imagine the perilous journey that ships carrying goods into Somalia are facing! There is no doubt the most affected by the piracy is the Somali people. For Somalis, getting basic necessities such as food and medicine are becoming hard by the day. The pirates are making virtually impossible for ships to dock Somali ports without a navy escort which Somalia does not have.

Somalis are paying food prices 10 times higher than other places because insurance and security must be factored into the pricing equation. The pirates are increasing the misery that Somalis are already in by many folds over. At the same time, the population is powerless to do anything about it, because they have been attacked on many fronts. The population is literally like wounded buffalo where hyenas are attacking from all sides. These hyenas include the pirates, the warlords, and the Ethiopian occupation which makes life unbearable with their daily indiscriminate shelling of major population centers.

The United Nations has allowed Somalia to become a failed state. It is not new that failed states become refuge for scoundrels. Pirates are in part and parcel of this scoundrels such as warlords, terrorist nut heads, Ethiopian mercenaries, narcotics producers and wildlife poachers. These scoundrels thrive and multiply in swamps of lawlessness and anarchy, places like Somalia.

Today, the headlines are focused on Piracy but tomorrow may well bring another threat that the world never has contemplated its dimension and scale. The world is more globalized than any pervious periods of human history. I am afraid the United Nations as far as Somalia is concerned, seems to be highly unequipped to deal with Somalia of the world.

We live in a world where drug resistant tuberculosis can spread like wildfire in failed states such as Somalia. A place with no healthy care agencies, first responders or law and order ceased to exist a long time ago. A pandemic outbreak in a failed state would have consequences far greater than piracy, terrorism and environmental disasters combined. There are no agencies to coordinate with, no way to control or enforce measures to limit an outbreak and worst of all; it would spread in a global scale as expatriates and those who can, escape to safer countries and do so in a hurry.

The UN is in delusional state, if they truly believe poorly trained Ethiopian militias who trade Kalashnikov with cell phones and pastoral warlords can be trusted to bring peace and order and bring Somalia into the fold of stable nations.