Israel Recognizes Somaliland!

Many years ago, a budding decentralist and anarcho-capitalist suggested to a pair of highly paid Pentagon area specialist contractors that instead of what we were doing in the horn of Africa, we might gain credibility by recognizing Somaliland, which at the time was peaceful, free trading, and a rare example of an organic government, not at war, nor seeking war.

The sincere suggestion was greeted by at least one dropped jaw, and two blank stares. Later, I had not changed my mind, and in the three intervening decades, Somaliland has endured. I wrote in 2003, . . .