The conflict in the Horn of Africa is growing deadlier and more complex. Ethiopian forces supporting the new anti-Islamist government in Somalia are attacking insurgents in Mogadishu, and apparently large numbers of new refugees have fled a city that has lost 350,000 residents since February. The leader of the Islamist insurgency promises to continue the jihad. Meanwhile, in Ethiopia’s own Ogaden region, ethnic Somali forces fighting for independence struck a Chinese oil facility, killed 77 people, and are holding seven Chinese workers captive. There appears to be close connections between the Somali and Ethiopian insurgencies. And next door in Uganda, talks to end a bloody war between its insurgents (religious extremists but not Islamists) and the government are at a critical stage.

It’s all Bush’s fault. And there is no worldwide threat to peace and progress posed by Islamism and other radical movements. Move along, nothing to see here.