Posted on 10/16/2011 8:59:58 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
Washington (CNN) – Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona on Sunday questioned the president’s recent order to send American troops to central Africa, saying the move could put the United States on a slippery slope.
“I worry about, with the best of intentions, that we somehow get engaged in a commitment that we can't get out of,” McCain said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
Racist!
Maybe someone should whisper in McLames ear that the Uganda Gov. allows Child Sacrifice to continue and grow. OOPS!
I read that Soros has a tie in to Uganda somehow, too, but I don’t have the lead handy.
For over two years I have said 0bama would like to have a US Army Division tied down somewhere in Africa.
two words
Tehran
Mogadishu
which similar event will ensnare O? Carter and Clinton both had their moments.
and how will the adoring media spin it as a success story for O?
McQueeg thinks that 0bama has good intentions by removing Christians from the battlefield (i.e. killing them)??
All Africa.com:
Jeffrey Sachs, the economist, and George Soros, the billionaire investor, outlined the new phase of the initiative at UN headquarters in New York.
The Millennium Villages scheme, launched five years ago, “has made tremendous breakthroughs in achieving the Millennium Development Goals in places that were written off as hopeless,” Mr Sachs told reporters.
He cited dramatic advances in maize yields, use of anti-malaria bed nets, and prevention of stunting among children in many of the original 10 Millennium Villages, two of which are in Kenya, with one each in Tanzania and Uganda.
Additional cash
Mr Soros said he is giving $27.4 million to help finance the expansion of the Millennium Villages. He is also making available $20 million in loans to support businesses in the villages. Mr Soros previously donated $50 million to the initiative.
That earlier gift was made despite strong opposition on the part of the board of directors of Mr Soros’ charitable foundation, he pointed out.
Some researchers say that claims made for the success of the project are overblown.
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Looks like Kenya and Tanzania might be on Zero’s list too.
Soros apparently has made it clear he doesn’t want his project to fail. OIL baby!!!
Afric needs highways, and a dropping of US trade barriers to the impoortation of agricultural products from Africa to the USA.
Africa does not need U.S. soldiers and the creation of power vacuums to be filled with Obama appointed African dictators.That has already has been tried repeatedly, only to fail miserably.
Where is the so called Congressional Black Caucus on this?
So what happened to the pirate seized Russian tanks that Odinga was going to smuggle through Uganda?http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,733775,00.html
I think the most amazing thing about this article is that McCain was on television. I mean, when does that ever happen? (snickering sarcasm)
What about someone say “ NO” to Obama once in a while when he does this kind of thing. Would it hurt to say NO? its only two letters.
I would also like to see the top Brass grow a set and refuse to comply or retire when ordered to follow stupid or unlawful orders.
Viet.
Nam.
Once you set up AFRICOM (with a four star General), you've got to justify its existence. There's no point having a combatant command in Africa that does not fight, so you do a little bit of fighting, chalk up a few victories (Libya anyone?), then (in cooperation with Congressmen who want a bit of that budget spent in their districts), you fight the next round of budget battles.
Afghanistan is drawing down, Iraq is almost a closed chapter and the focus of national security strategy is now the Pacific. Where does that leave the Army and Marines? They cannot afford to be the big losers in the next round of budget cuts, so they will tempted to chalk up some spectacular victories in Africa.
France has been doing this sort of thing in Sub-Saharan Africa for the past fifty years. They've intervened militarily in Africa at least twenty times since 1960. They are getting a bit tired, and your Government in its infinite wisdom wants to take their place.
Meanwhile, the Chinese are furiously building infrastructure like:
a. Nairobi-Thika Expressway Kenya
They made a movie about something like this. Tears of the Sun starring Bruce willis...Didn’t go too well!
I agree with you, and we need to continue to make the case for the proper contest with the Chinese.
US Africa Combat Command was indeed created by Bush at a time when Al Qaeda was very active in East Africa, and at a time when the US government ( Clinton in particular) had been criticized for not acting to prevent tutsi vs hutu genocide in Rwanda. Indeed the Congressional Black Congress was instrumental in pressuring Bush to create AFRICOM.
Obama intends to MIS-use US Africa Combat Command to forward his own neo-colonialist brand of radical politics in Africa, which will set tribe against tribe.....just as it did in Kenya....and then he will back his own brand of dictator.This will get the African people nowhere.
Having said that, I do think the AFRICOM does have its humanitarian uses, but doubt that this is the use which Obama intends, or else he would be competing with the Chinese, brick for brick, instead of creating power vacuums to be filled with Obama ideologues.
Time will tell, and Obama is already in the process of defining yet another “enemy” ...lets see the action he takes after doing so. I wish that action would be building infrastructure but I am very doubtful that will be the result.
1. Raila Odinga and the Kenyan Government were committed to supporting the Christians in Southern Sudan by discreetly supplying them with Russian made tanks.
2. Kibaki, not Odinga heads the Kenyan Government and he was personally very angry that the US Government stood in the way of supporting Christians in Southern Sudan with arms.
3. This issue was dealt with by the Bush administration, not the Obama administration.
World politics is not a mirror image of your silly political food fights. We know you don't like Obama and there are many reasons not to like him, but at least get your facts straight. You do the conservative movement great harm by wading into matters you barely understand.
There is a certain class of American conservatives who make effort to link every bad story from East Africa to Odinga (and by association, Obama) without as much knowing whether Odinga were a man or a horse.
It would be funny if it were not so tragic. Remember that like Socialism, Conservatism supposed to be a World-wide movement. Think about it, how are you going to appeal to the rest of the World if you cannot get your facts straight?
1. Raila Odinga and the Kenyan Government were committed to supporting the Christians in Southern Sudan by discreetly supplying them with Russian made tanks.
2. Kibaki, not Odinga heads the Kenyan Government and he was personally very angry that the US Government stood in the way of supporting Christians in Southern Sudan with arms.
3. This issue was dealt with by the Bush administration, not the Obama administration.
World politics is not a mirror image of your silly political food fights. We know you don't like Obama and there are many reasons not to like him, but at least get your facts straight. You do the conservative movement great harm by wading into matters you barely understand.
There is a certain class of American conservatives who make effort to link every bad story from East Africa to Odinga (and by association, Obama) without as much knowing whether Odinga were a man or a horse.
It would be funny if it were not so tragic. Remember that like Socialism, Conservatism supposed to be a World-wide movement. Think about it, how are you going to appeal to the rest of the World if you cannot get your facts straight?
Bring in the drones...they seem to work fine in Yemen.
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