Unacceptably strange though it seems to some politically correct foreign pundits, part of the problem here, as must be obvious by now, is that conflict and war are normal conditions in Somali experience down the ages. There is thus a high tolerance of disorder and violence, especially amongst the recent nomadic invaders of Mogadishu.

I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Som…, loc. 708