ABC News -- Jake Tapper
Obama Sends 100 US Troops to Uganda to Help Combat Lord’s Resistance Army
Two days ago President Obama authorized the deployment to Uganda of approximately 100 combat-equipped U.S. forces to help regional forces “remove from the battlefield” – meaning capture or kill – Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony and senior leaders of the LRA.
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The forces will ultimately go to Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with the permission of those countries.
Oh sure
A Defense Department official tells ABC’s Luis Martinez at the Pentagon that the U.S. troops will be in Africa “for a few months in an advisory role.”
Who the hell is the Lord's Resistance Army? The article says that they've been out there for "two decades". Is this what the "Responsibility to Protect" doctrine does for us?
What, Iraq, Afganistan, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen aren't enough?
Sketchy Iranian assassination plots and now we're into Africa with plans to "advise" 4 countries in another "kill or capture" operation?
What the frig is going on? Tail wagging dog? Don't worry about the economy and jobs we have a world to save?
What the frig? Where do we go next? What the frig?
11:43 AM PT: Update: Early commenters are very familiar with LRA and they are evil. I apologize I never heard of them before, perhaps there are others like me.
Regardless, another foreign intervention, another "international" crisis upon which action must be taken now? This just does not set well.