in most of these debates i usually try very hard not to engage because most of the time, its people claiming to be 'experts' making all sorts of claims.....
Lets be honest, b4 going to somalia, What would you have said about fighting jihadist like alshabaab who in 2011 numbered about 12,000? I personally would have said we would crush them in one week, I would have even gone futher to claim we would do it better than the americans!!!. Remember that incident during Moi regime when Administration police engaged Ugandan forces in a firefight when they tried to enter Kenya?
Now that we have the experience, I always tell people from counties havent faced a 'holy' war,If you want to know if your country can fight terrorism, just take a look of how you fight other crimes in your country.... Like how often do murder crimes get solved and killers arrested, How often does you law enfornment track down fugitives???? What about narcotic drugs? Human trafficking? What about poachers of elephants,rare animals, is your country in control of all of that? If your answer is maybe or no, then you have no real capability to fight terrorism .......... You will notice that poaching in Kenya has dramatically gone down in Kenya, right at the same time we managed to curtail alshabaabs ability to carry out attacks deep inside Kenya..... This is because they used to use the same smugglign routes and tricks that poachers use to smuggle explosives, cash, weapons.etc
Terrosim on home soil is fought in peoples houses, neighbourhoods, they look like you, act like you but when it turns dark and you go out in the club, they are planning to come bomb that night club, If your police and intelligence services can't catch poarchers, human or drug traffickers or dismantle their money laundering networks, if you cant use evidence,witnesses, forensics to catch regular murderes or fugitives how do you expect to trail and catch trained assassins and gunmen who have all the knowlege on how to avoid bieng caught!!!!!!
So when I see some people bragging of how they can do a better job fighting an enemy that has declaired jihad on you whole country when they can't solve regular crime... I just try as much to avoid engaging with such people!!!!
Excuse the long comment