American troops going to Africa...

[SomethingFishy]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/14/politics/main20120685.shtml

(AP) President Barack Obama said Friday he's dispatching roughly 100 U.S. troops to central Africa to help battle the Lord's Resistance Army, which the administration accuses of a campaign of murder, rape and kidnapping children that spans two decades.
In a letter to Congress, Obama said the troops will act as advisers in efforts to hunt down rebel leader Joseph Kony but will not engage in combat except in self-defense.

The White House said the first troops arrived in Uganda on Wednesday. Ultimately, they'll also deploy in South Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

[leftstreet]

1. Add Uganda to the list of places Americans will soon be able to find on a map

:grr:

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. Um....."right thing to do, wrong way to do it"?

[SomethingFishy]

4. Yeah this is a tough one...

They need the help.. badly. But are we in any position to do this?

[TheWraith]

5. It's a hundred guys. We can handle this. nt

[Kennah]

8. Just like Somalia

[sabrina 1]

9. Africom is underway. Somalia, Libya now Uganda and wherever that

leads. The Neocons must be dancing with joy.

[Fire Walk With Me]

13. The neocons probably make some of their money through Big Pharma tests in Africa.

This could hurt them.

[Posteritatis]

14. I somehow doubt they're getting much done along those lines in northern Uganda. (nt)

[Worship Money]

3. I hope they help eliminate that monster n/t

[Posteritatis]

12. Kony really, really, *really* needs to die. (nt)

[Taverner]

6. Great. More wars. Didn't we dispatch about 100 troops to Vietnam after Dien Bien Phu?

And every year after that, a little more and a little more...

I give up

[dkf]

7. If we decide we want to save people there are endless wars to get into.

[FarCenter]

10. I see a drone in Mr Kony's future

[sabrina 1]

15. I see military bases in Africa, the oil rich Sudan nearby eg.

[undeterred]

11. I have been to the Central African Republic.

You don't want to send your military there.