Do we have any links(not liberal) that could explain this group more fully? Regardless...I don’t believe we should be sending troups all over the planet on ‘humanitarian’ missions. This is what the liberals want to do under the guise of humanitarian gestures but it is actually all explained in Agenda 21. It’s the new world order that the marxist and commies want to use. Next stop....ISRAEL.
Don’t be fooled by any of it folks.
My daughter lived in Uganda and Rwanda and is fully familiar with the fear and trepidation the population lives under as a result of this group. They do not speak ill of him because he has informants all around the country, and people disappear forever after speaking ill of him.
Kony is a very superstitious sort who gathers around him animist, pagan and Christians who are disillusioned and mostly uneducated and illiterate. He is a cult following that has been involved in violence for years.
This man is not about ideology, he is about himself, rape, murder, torture, and kidnapping. The world would be better off without him.
I don’t know whether Obama’s actions are good or not, but anyone who stops the demon is a good thing.
Neither my daughter or I are liberals in any sense of the word.
Remember, this is the part of the world (Rwanda) where over one million people were killed under the Clinton Administration in the genocide, while the UN sat by and watched.
See my post at 47. You can read the congressional findings at the link I posted to the law that Congress passed in 2010 on our interest in removing the LRA.
A few things.
1. Joseph Kony and his LRA are a national security challenge to many East / Central African nations (Uganda, DRC, South etc).
2. Uganda and Burundi have committed thousands of troops towards battling Al Shabab in Somalia. Al Shabab has now been driven out of Mogadishu.
3. Al Shabab is a US national security challenge.
4. The Central African region (Uganda, South Sudan) is now a major Oil producing region, the presence of the LRA destabilizes this region.
5. Uganda has put pressure on the United States to help it get rid of the LRA. It is a quid pro quo - we help you rid Somalia of Al Shabab, you help us with the LRA. Uganda has kept its own part of the bargain, now the US needs to reciprocate.
6. There is a lot of nonsense being peddled by ignorant freepers about Uganda, Idi Amin and Islam. Only 12% of Ugandans are Muslim and at least 85% of all Ugandans are Christian (2002 Census).
7. If you don’t want the US involved in getting rid of the LRA, then don’t insist that the Ugandans, Rwandans and Burundians should be involved in getting rid of Al Shabab.