Some beautiful pictures of Somalia

[Bono]

[Bono]

extreme poverty (500 gdp per capita)

That's 1991 data. There isn't any government now, so there is no one to collect statistic data. I know this guy in another forum who is somali, altough he's living in Canada, who said that for years, tehy were the ones who sent money for Somalia, but now it's their relative sin somalia who are sending money for them. His uncle, who owns a pharmacy chain in Somalia, paid for his first car and another one of his relatives there makes more money than his parents with 2 PHDs.

[Bono]

Oh yes! This looks like the place I want to to to on my next vacation!

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic.

Bono managed to find some pictures of some structures without explosive marks or bullet holes.  That doesn't make the place even close to alright.

The Islamic militants wouldn't be too happy to see Americans.

The islamic militants once tried to take over Somalia and were crunched by the militias.

[Bono]

I suppose the point of this is that Somalia does fine without government, and so we would too?

Thanks but no thanks, I'll take our system over their's any day.  Just because there are anecdotes of the lives the elites live doesn't mean the country is paradise.  Those pictures you have look even worse than the crappy parts of LA so don't brag too much about how great Somalia is.

Anecdotal evidence is about as good as "estimations" made by people who don't have any familiarity with what they are calculating.
Somalia got out of a 11 years civil war after 40 years of Socialism. Of course they aren't like LA.