What I’d like to interject into the dialog is the way that Somalia epitomizes so many right-wing ideological principles. No big government - barely any at all. No entitlements, no progressive (or any other) taxation; no government medical care, education, research, or anything else. Martial virtue exalted, religion very much part of daily life. It’s the free market utopia, what we should all wish the U.S. would look to instead of those decadent socialist Europeans.
— A friend of mine from LA, on the Somali pirates
