Things that HACK ME OFF!

[lucrezaborgia]

(03-07-2012 09:22 PM)tiarali Wrote:  I get that removing the leader will do nothing long-term in the region. But at the same time, if there was a mass murderer running around free you'd think we'd have enough compassion for the victims to want him to be held personally responsible for what he's done.

I don't think anyone is advocating we do absolutely nothing. It's untrue that the US government has been ignoring this and helping Uganda and surrounding countries has been a priority, albeit not at the level of intervention that groups like Invisible Children would like. The sad fact tho is that the LRA, while horrible, isn't the worst in the region. They are actually bit players in a much larger clusterfuck. Get rid of Kony at this point and you have a bunch of smaller groups scattering to the other major conflicts in the area with the most likely area the newly created South Sudan which absolutely does not need their interference at this time.

Scrarch that, he's not even in Uganda anymore and the LRA is no where near the main problem in the region: http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012...ted_things