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This is CBSI in the world.

I'm John Batchewith.

Bill Rajo, my colleague and co-host, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

He's a senior fellow, keeping the Long War Journal.

And filing on the Long War Journal often is Caleb Weiss, who's traveling in Africa,

reporting on Somalia, chiefly these last times we've had an opportunity to talk with Caleb.

And the fight is what appears to be extremely hard to imagine where it's headed.

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