US wants meeting on Somalia

Reported here:

The United States will invite other nations to a strategy session next week on Somalia, where an Islamic militia group has routed U.S.-backed warlords and tightened its grip on the lawless nation.
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State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Friday that European and African nations are among the members of an international consortium that will try to coordinate support for Somalia, which has had no fully working government for 15 years.

Pretty hasty, perhaps too hasty in my view. Someone needs to remind the State Department that you should "never let them see you sweat."