The Ethio-Somali forces won because they were fighting for the right cause. You remember,the UIC killed a fellow for watching a Soccer game on TV! There arealso anecdotal stories of people being behaded for not praying five-times a-day!
The other reason, perhaps the main one, is that the Ethiopian military forces are of a hybrid nature: A. A. They are well easoned guerrilla fighters and B. They are a major conventional military force in Africa! They are prone to switch gears on you when you expect them to do one thing instead ofthe other. Their legendary lond-distancerunners are much like that. One of them, Miroots Yifter, used to be referred to as “Yifter The Shifter”, because, when you thought he had used up the last ounce of energy, he, predictably, shifted gears on his competition the last minute, to snatch a seemingly unlikely victory!
The moral of all this is: Dont’t mess with them Ethiopians! Most of all, Don’t mess with Meles, their rather clairvoyant and near-genious leader.
