New war --- Uganda.
So much for that campaign promise of getting us out of wars.
Why would the administration put already tired troops to work fighting another war in which we have no national interest?
National Interest
What could we possibly gain by going into Uganda.
The answer is nothing of value as a National Interest. No oil, trade, or natural resources for us or anyone else for that matter.
The answer is humanitarian. We have humanitarian interests to gain, or specifically to give. President Obama is sending about 100 U.S.
troops to central Africa to help local forces battle the Lord's
Resistance Army, a rebel group that the administration says has waged a
campaign of murder, rape and kidnapping for more than two decades. Obama said Friday 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, according to a letter to
Congress.
And so here we are again acting as the worlds policeman. Granted on the surface, this is a very noble cause. But if this was that noble, why didn't any other country take up the baton, or the U.N for that matter.
The real reason
Political "browny" points with Obama's base. For years, the cause celebrity was (still is) to stop the genocide of rogue regimes and waring factions within Africa. To save lives. This is another small way of pandering to the liberal base, and not the altruism that is should be.
Who should be helping Africans?
Why are we the worlds police anyway. Africa has been a royal mess since the 1800's colonialist period land grab by European states. Were are they today? Why haven't they intervened to fix the mess created by the state lines they drew? Oh yeah they have money issues. Bigger fish to fry I guess as their EU experiment comes crashing down.
What about all those war protesters?
Where are all those war protesters these days. You saw them everywhere protesting the Bush Administrations war efforts. Now, not a peep from the same folks and we have two more wars we are in?
I sense a bit of hypocrisy, or maybe they are in the Occupy Wall Street rebellion.
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