Somalia doesn't have to be stable and secure for Kenya to be stable and secure. It shouldn't be awfully important for us to know or have a say on who runs Somalia. Look at the link about that AS defector. He hasn't said he's averse to picking weapons and protecting what he thinks is his. He's just being a reasonable politician, trying to find some balance in this whole game. That's Al Shabaab preserving itself. So it's our responsibility to learn how to co-exist with AS. For example the AS attacking the Kenyan army is justified as per this defector.
If they attack we attack, if they refrain we refrain. If they want to do business, we do business. If we want to do business with them we negotiate. Or if we want to use violence, then fine! We accept we'll suffer violence. We live with them 'hapa ki hapa'. Our soldiers have no business staying there. If we attack, we attack from home.
Kenyan youth should also be AS the defector's kind of way. Even if that means we have a big army, as in every one being a soldier. At least militia level at Kibera, Dandora... everywhere. That way our politics will change, our country will even be more democratic. Somalia will also have to be democratic and stable to survive.
Victory for KDF and our State in this case is surviving and flourishing despite the tendency for anarchy and violence. The AS, at least the defector's version should also flourish. We should champion and utilize a win-win strategy even in our domestic politics. The elite should protect the poor and the common man and the common man protect the elite. Or rather, we let this mutual protection the result of radical action by all parties.