Obama goes to war against brutal Christian theocrat

[Enrique]

{'m just waiting for some RWer to take Kony's side, because he's a Christian. It will be a very revealing thing.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/obama-sends-100-us-troops-to-uganda-to-combat-lords-resistance-army/

Two days ago President Obama authorized the deployment to Uganda of approximately 100 combat-equipped U.S. forces to help regional forces “remove from the battlefield” – meaning capture or kill – Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony and senior leaders of the LRA.

The forces will deploy beginning with a small group and grow over the next month to 100. They will ultimately go to Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with the permission of those countries.
The president made this announcement in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, Friday afternoon, saying that “deploying these U.S. Armed Forces furthers U.S. national security interests and foreign policy and will be a significant contribution toward counter-LRA efforts in central Africa.”

He said that “although the U.S. forces are combat-equipped, they will only be providing information, advice, and assistance to partner nation forces, and they will not themselves engage LRA forces unless necessary for self-defense.”

The president said that for more than two decades the LRA has been responsible for having “murdered, raped, and kidnapped tens of thousands of men, women, and children in central Africa” and continues to “commit atrocities across the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Sudan that have a disproportionate impact on regional security.”

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[mactime]

1. Any country left

Any country left in the world without US 'boots on the ground"?

[Aristus]

2. Yeah, the U.S.

They're all someplace else...

[ellisonz]

9. Bhutan for starters...

:rofl:

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[UnseenUndergrad]

5. Rightwingers?

I'm wating for some HERE to take Kony's side. So far, none have; besides making the usual noises about the Ugandan's abysmal LGBT rights record, insinuating it's about oil or claiming a Vietnam redux, it's been rather quiet.

[Hydra]

6. Do we take the Taliban's side when we say we need to leave Afghanistan?

Hell, the way things are, I'd be surprised if Kony hasn't been getting money and guns from us. If he hasn't, he's probably the first armed person we've gone after in 20 years that doesn't fall into that category.

[UnseenUndergrad]

8. Apologies.

On the first point, it's very likely that the Taliban's main lifeline is draping itself in the robe of resistance to the continuing western presence. When we get out of there, there may be a brief flurry of resurgence, but then what? So no, we are not cheering the Taliban. it was a poor allegory to conflate non-interventionists with actual supporters of a brutal bunch of idiots.

On my part, it's mostly my own blowback from listening to apparent Qaddafi apologists on the Libya threads (not the strict anti-interventionists, but actual people who sound like near-Stalinists) talking about how Libyans had the "Highest Standard of Living in Africa" under Qaddafi while not considering that said standard may actually rise across the board if the wealth isn't being passed out to the AU and various rebellions or being squandered on the opulence they found in Tripoli (and recently in Sirte).

As to Kony, I wouldn't know the LRA's funding sources (or whether they got by through raiding, slave labor and blood-resources). But unless the Ugandans or DRC government were Soviet aligned (I think they might have been), I can't see a reasonable reason for anyone to foment Chaos like that in the region when most agendas would be in favor of oppressive stability.

[Posteritatis]

10. Well, it's only been a day so far... (nt)

[ProSense]

7. Here's

more information.