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Africa Subsaharan
Why Obama is sending troops to Africa
2011-11-01
The money graf, in Three Paragraphs:
Noah Gottschalk, a senior humanitarian policy advisor for Oxfam America, says that a military operation is just one of many potential tools for combating the LRA, and one that could put countless thousands of civilians in harm's way. The Ugandan military has tried a military solution in dealing with the LRA in the past, Gottschalk said, most recently with their Operation Lightning Thunder at the end of 2008. "That operation was designed to go after the LRA with the stated intent of making the LRA go away, but it left civilians a lot worse off."

In the long run, the solution may be the boring work of development, Gottschalk says.

"The LRA goes to places where there is little development, they don't go to places where there are big roads," he says. "So if you start to squeeze that area, building roads, bringing in infrastructure, you're not only bringing development to the most neglected corners of Africa, you're also reducing the territory that the LRA can operate in."
Posted by:Pappy

#12  Essentially, as in article I posted here a few weeks back.
Posted by: Pappy   2011-11-01 21:12  

#11  OK, so he's a nominal Christian at best, with guns, mixed up with a little local hokum.

The article doesn't say so but I wonder if it's a little like this: Uganda sends troops to Somalia so we pay them back by sending troops to Uganda. Is that our dog in this fight?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2011-11-01 18:25  

#10  And Kony is no worse than Idi Amin; that continent seems to elevate its serial killers, rather than execute them.
Posted by: shieldwolf   2011-11-01 17:44  

#9  Zero is trying to tie the US into the 21st century version of Kipling's White Man's Burden. EXCEPT that we get NO benefits out of it, pay ALL of the costs, and lose ALL of the people doing it. Feel-good socialist social engineering and sticking it to the flyover country whites who make up the political resistance and most of the military as well.
Posted by: shieldwolf   2011-11-01 17:43  

#8  Joseph Kony is not a Christian. He is not even human.
Posted by: Grunter   2011-11-01 17:10  

#7  Nope.
Posted by: Pollyandrew   2011-11-01 13:58  

#6  Because they're Christians?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2011-11-01 12:08  

#5  How...Roman.

Watch it, with that Japanese CO2 Sat report that is exactly what will be sold. And recovering SAMs. Nation building is what they called it at one point in time.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2011-11-01 11:30  

#4  In the long run, the solution may be the boring work of development

Costs $$$$

I hope we get some Oil and Diamonds out of this.
Posted by: Creregum Glolump8403   2011-11-01 10:00  

#3  Because he can.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2011-11-01 05:05  

#2  they don't go to places where there are big roads

So let's just pave Africa and we're home free.
Posted by: SteveS   2011-11-01 00:53  

#1  So Africa is more shovel-ready than the US? Oh that's right, they don't have all those pesky eco-regs and NIMBY-ites to contend with.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2011-11-01 00:34  

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