Another Failed 20-Year War: America vs. Somalia
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Freedom Works
The name Somalia has somehow become a slur against Americans who prioritize political liberty. Oh, you think freedom works, huh? Well, why don’t you just move to Somalia? This nonsense may have originated from the fact that some libertarian economists, such as Michael van Notten and Peter T. Leeson, noticed that when Somalia’s government ceased to exist after various warlords had exhausted themselves fighting over control of the country in the late 1990s, freedom was working. No power in the country had a monopoly on force, so traditional tribal methods of dispute resolution