'If diplomacy is back, as Biden and Blinken have promised, there is no substitute for on-the-ground knowledge. It is time to open a consular office in Somaliland and perhaps forward station a diplomat on a temporary basis to Burao,' Michael Rubin writes.
Because the State Department, unlike many European and African states, has not opened an office in Somaliland, U.S. officials are essentially flying blind. The US.. Embassy in Mogadishu hears only one side of the argument. Its interlocutors often seek to pull a fast one over American diplomats
I had driven the roads and visited the villages around the regions that Biden, Gelb, and Blinken wanted to carve up and they were incredibly complex: Christian, both Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims, and Yezidi; Arab, Kurd, and Turkmen. Sometimes together, sometimes separated in twin villages. Larger towns were diverse, even down into specific neighborhoods. To divide Iraq would be to unleash Balkans-style ethnic and sectarian cleansing.
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