US sends 100 troops to Uganda

Luigi59 said:
The sad truth that everyone wants to ignore is that there has been sectarian/ethnic violence and wholesale genocide going on in Central Africa for years and the USA has continued to ignore it for reasons only the Bush/Obama administration(s) know. Mass rape, kidnapping, mutilation, etc (estimates of over 1 MILLION have been killed in Rwanda, and 400,000 in Darfur, Sudan).

This deployment to Uganda to hunt down and kill Joseph Kony makes no sense as long as Omar al-Bashir is still free.
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See, this is what Im talking about. What justifies US intervention? We have human rights abuses going on in other parts of Africa and Middle East/Asia. Why Uganda and why now? I just hope that whatever the reason, the troop commitment is worth it.

Anyway, God bless to everyone over there..

CS
 
Chockstock said:
See, this is what Im talking about. What justifies US intervention? We have human rights abuses going on in other parts of Africa and Middle East/Asia. Why Uganda and why now? I just hope that whatever the reason, the troop commitment is worth it.

Anyway, God bless to everyone over there..

CS
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If we're worrying about justifying US intervention, we have far bigger questions to answer than 100 advisors in Uganda.
 
possible reasons for this announcement

- Vietnam II, start with "advisors" then escalate

- inexperience/mistake of a Presidential staffer, there are numerous "partnership" events happening at Africa now. Also, I think we still have US soldiers in Bosnia/Kosovo assisting with hunting down war criminals

- political gambit to count this is a foreign policy "accomplishement."

- an action to make someone (i.e. some PAC, political contributior, etc) happy

- etc
 
corvette said:
. . . [President] knows what he's doing better than us and he never wants to hurt our country or our troops. . .
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I like to smoke what you are smoking, I am kidding.

Politics aside, getting elected President doesn't change who you are.

Perspective plays a role here to as to not hurting our troops means what - no war, no funding cut to DoD . . .
 
It makes you wonder what the African Union actually does.... or the UN for that matter.
 
Sounds similiar to Somolia. Remember The Battle of Mogadishu in 1993 (Black Hawk Down) started as humanitarian aid.
 
aggie83 said:
Sounds similiar to Somolia. Remember The Battle of Mogadishu in 1993 (Black Hawk Down) started as humanitarian aid.
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No, it didn't. That's a massive oversimplification. You're confusing a direct action mission which occurred parallel to the US-administered food program.
 
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