Posted on 10/16/2011 4:56:45 PM PDT by AfricanChristian
(Article from 2009. Helps put US involvement in Uganda in context)
AMERICANS, LEARN MORE ABOUT YOUR NATION AND ITS ALLIES.
Under a relentless equatorial sun and the gaze of her Zimbabwean instructor, Juliet Kituye quickly reassembles her AK-47. Next to her, a young man in a ripped red T-shirt discharges imaginary rounds at an invisible target.
On a disused soccer pitch in the suburbs of the Ugandan capital, Kampala, 300 hopefuls are being put through rudimentary firearms training. Many of the recruits are raw and their drills occasionally lurch towards slapstick. One trainee lets the magazine slip out of his automatic rifle and onto the red earth, someone else about turns right instead of left. All of them share the same dream, however: going to Iraq.
As President Barack Obama announces plans to withdraw US troops from Iraq, thousands of young Ugandans are increasingly desperate to be sent to the war-torn country. Already, the Ugandan government says there are more than 10,000 men and women from this poverty-stricken East African nation working as private security guards in Iraq. Hired out to multibillion-dollar companies for hundreds of dollars a month, they risk their lives seeking fortunes protecting US Army bases, airports, and oil firms.
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Ping.
interesting article.
the world’s more complicated all the time.
How many of them are child soldiers?
Moses Matsiko was shot seven times and sees nothing but opportunity. People certainly respond to opportunity.
MONEY?
Probably not. The Lord’s Resistance Army uses child soldiers. The Ugandan Army is professional.
Understatement of the year.
Having visited America and interacted with many Americans, I don't think the American news media and the American education system educates Americans well about a rapidly changing and dynamic world.
I've watched Fox News and I think its too focused on internal politics, the Middle East and Europe and China (superficially).
Sad to say this, but Al Jazeera English presents a better view of a rapidly changing world than Fox News. This is not to say that I agree 100% with Al Jazeera, but if you're a news junkie like me, you need something more than Fox or Piers Morgan talking to Ozzie Osbourne on CNN.
Chow line.
The Lord’s Resistance Army is about as “Christian” as the People’s Temple without all the kindness.
I don’t think the American news media and the American education system educates Americans well about a rapidly changing and dynamic world.
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a true statement.
it’s astonishing how little americans know about their own country or the world.
that’s by design—the leftist who control our public schools and universities promote identity politics as a diversion to a real education.
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Could be chow line, quite alright, but you don’t send untrustworthy people to guard US installations.
When your soldiers leave, they’ll be guarding US installations in Iraq. If they run in trouble, they’ll have to face the Iraqi Justice system alone.
They may be poor and desperate, but at least they are ready to work hard and they are brave.
Perhaps third worlders should be asking themselves why America is first among all nations on practically every front: The most powerful, the richest, with the best schools (that turd worlders and first worlders alike are clamoring to get into), that has dominated the number of Nobel Prize awards for the better part of a century, that, year in and year out, is awarded more patents than the rest of the world combined, that, apart from its Nobel standings, has the most number of scientific discoveries by far than any other country in the world, that regularly astonishes the world with game-changing scientific and technological breakthroughs and achievements. Until recently, the country whose citizens enjoyed the greatest degree of personal liberty of any country in the world.
I know it hasn't occurred to you, but perhaps WE have been paying attention to all the right things, all the important areas of the world (Europe, America, Asia) and you have not. And that's how we have managed to position ourselves so far ahead of you in terms of our global influence, hmmm?
Thank God the America of old wasn't preoccupied with Ghana, Mali and Togo. Do you really want to be that guy? Personally, I don't think it is quite the time for it (maybe in a thousand years), but to each his own.
Do not make the mistake of judging us by the worst in our society. Do not tell us we are uneducated. Judge us by our best. To the extent that the numbers make "us" look uneducated and ignorant, it is because of the number of dumb and ignorant turd worlders who have flooded into our country and refused to assimilate.
For me, American Television is useless for important news, so I get my sources from the internet. If they stopped television all together, it would take me a week to notice, and a year to care.
Probabaly none.
There will be standards and they can be selective. Just guessing, but I would doubt you’d see child soldiers.
Morals- religion, the Bible has been removed.
Thinking- no formal logic, no fallacies, weak math
Humanities- focus on diversity, relativistic (no conveyance of culture- the PURPOSE of teaching the humanities has been lost)
If you let public education raise your kids you'll get an uncultured savage, a heathen that can pass a standardized test that states nothing about their true abilities to think, work as part of a team, know the difference between right and wrong, or even what it means to be an American.
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