The undemocratic Ethiopian parliament declared war against Eritrea under the pretext that Ethiopia must “stop Eritrean aggression and punish the terrorist invaders” not long ago. As result of that declaration, about 100,000 innocent soldiers were killed in battlefields and ten of thousands of families and individuals faced tragic deportations and dire humanitarian consequences. The same parliament that had not yet learned from its past blunder echoed again the readiness and preparation to invade the eastern neighbor Somalia in the name of protecting Ethiopians and the rest of the world from terrorists’ threat.

The truth of the matter in waging this war against Somalia is the regime’s desperation to stop the uprising resistance movement within and outside Ethiopia which has been intensifying since the May 2005 election. The elaborate scheme (fighting the terrorists’ threat) by the dictatorial regime that attempts to justify war against Somalia may play out different this time given the fact that the Ethiopian rulers’ trustworthiness credential has been shattered and their decade’s long democratic pretension has hatched for worse. Invading a neighboring country in the name of terrorism will not be adequate to convince the majority of Ethiopians fight against those who have chosen to remove their autocratic rulers through armed struggle. Instead of attempting or going to war to defeat the uprising movement under the pretext of fighting terrorists, it would have been smarter if the rulers make a “declaration” that addresses the root causes of the conflicts at home.

As the cost of war that the dictatorial regime and the Islamic extremists’ are waging, will not only end up decimating an already fragile economy and burden the people in Ethiopia and Somalia but it will also destabilize the whole region along affecting thousands if not millions of innocent people. No matter the Ethiopian rulers’ imagination to justify this war or the next to come, the majority of Ethiopians and Somalia’s regardless of their faiths are unlikely to subordinate themselves to the dictatorial apparatus or Islamic extremists’ delusion to establish a “Greater Somalia” or quench their obsession to remain in power at any cost.

Given the fact, that Western powers continue to assist dictatorial despots, it will be up to the Diaspora to demand the West instantaneously ceases assisting the growing genocidal gesture that has been orchestrated and promoted by the despised regime in Ethiopia and its lobbyists in Washington. The Diaspora