[Borodog]

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People being as defensive [as] you usually don't have much to back up their statement[s].

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What a brilliant generalization. Again, who is it that has the superiority complex?

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I was not posting Somalia as a snide remark, I was posting it to show you how extreme anarchocapitalism turns out. A lot of creative, innovative business models, but a complete lack of [infrastructure ?] i.e. road building and a lack of investment capital.

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You're kidding right? No, I guess not. Modern day Somalia isn't how anarchocapitalism "turns out." It's how government turns out. Or is it your contention that Somalia has never had a government?

Most of Somalia's national wealth, economy, and infrastructure was destroyed by its government during it's collapse and the subsequent civil wars among competing warlords (i.e. would-be governments), and much of its population has fled the violence. Somalia's economy has also been hurt by Saudi Arabia's restriction on the importation of Somalian beef (I believe due to health concerns if I remember correctly; Green Valley Fever maybe?).

Still, Somalia has resisted the attempted installation of a government for more than a decade now. Even though land telecommunications infrastructure was totally destroyed during and subsequent to the government collapse, a cellular based, completely private telecommunications industry has sprund up that offers the lowest rates on the continent, and above average service availability and reliability.

Somalia has a long way to go before it has recovered from its governmental hangover. But trying to blame its problems on the LACK of a government rather than on the government that caused them is sophistry.