It looks like Meles Zenawi may be learning the lesson which could have been obvious to any reasonable African leader that the invasion of another African state is wrong in the absolute even though he might have done it, as it looks, with the backing and as a surrogate of the US. People should be guided by occurencies in history and should learn to look very hard before leaping and not allow themselves to be pushed into a mess that will end up in total disgrace. Meles Zenawi should be able to recall that it was just about two decades ago when, pushed by the US, Siad Barre of Somalia disgracefully invaded Ethiopia; an attempt which ended in failure with unnecessary heavy loss of soldiers and civilians on both sides. Ethiopia emerged from the civil war that resulted not only in splitting the country into two but dragged the country backwards economically by several decades. It would have been expected that Meles Zenawi would have preferentially devoted his time and the country's money into bringing the country back to its feet rather than pouring money to buy ammunition to invade Somalia. Hopefully, he can find a way out of the mess before the long is run.