SomaliWadaniSoldier
Weeping for the Nation of 68
There is one logical reason why the crusaders are happy with abgaal presidents/pms:
They are easy to control.
They are easy to control.
The title of this thread is erroneous and insulting.
But here is my take, it's part of the beautiful diversity of Somali's, some clan's are predominantly of the war mongering or difficult to deal with types, some are very easy to deal with and work with, this is just in a general sense etc.
Excluding the galmudug Abgaal's, as the Sayid poet said regarding them being the best of neighbours, they leave you alone mostly and mind their own business, don't really get much fitnah or aggro from them, that's their temperament in general, it's easy to make deals with people of that temperament and the learned ones among them.
An example would illustrate this best, 2 years after the ICU, the American's came with a proposal to train troops on both sides of Gaalkacayo, Faroole accepted this offer but Qeybdiid refused repeatedly even after the tuug was offered money, when asked he said "wa gaalo bakhti ah, I don't trust them", he was convinced they wanted to poison them or enslave them and were no good.
I was there at the time and everybody agreed with him to my shock and began to curse them together (I was only shocked due to the climate I was brought up), however with the new generations and the mixing & conditioning things have changed dramatically.
I can only theorise why some are more relaxed and others have a strong aversion to Gaalo historically speaking among Somalis, in the history of Xamar the place was always diverse with different rulers and even empires controlling it, hence the people grew more accepting much like Western Europeans to foreigners, were as the Eastern Europeans that had no such exposure other then negative by the conquering Turks, hate all foreigners by default.