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Article: And just as the Black Hawk Down episode has special significance for Americans, it does, too, for many Somalis, who take enormous pride in having humiliated a superpower that day.

These are obviously the Somalis who managed to take food out of the mouths of the ones who starved to death, thanks to the US withdrawal from the area. Funny how the New York Times doesn't explore this possibility in its "analysis".

Article: She moved to Mogadishu in the 1960’s, when it was a showcase of Italian architecture, a gem along the sea.

This is probably one of the obligatory NYT passages on man's inhumanity to buildings. But here's the question - if Italians can preserve thousands of years worth of Roman architecture, how is it that Somalis can't even preserve architecture that is merely several decades old? Again, the NYT fails to analyze, choosing instead to use canned politically-correct platitudes.