Today on Fox news.com Joe Brettel wrote an editorial titled "Calling all GOP Candidates--a conservative explains why you should care about Uganda. In this article Brettel explained that our involvement in Uganda is a moral obligation. Brettel went on to talk about Kony2012, the video that went viral over Youtube, that aims to make Konys war crimes known to the majority. Joseph Kony is the leader of the Lords Resistance Army, a radical Christian terrorist group who's original goal was to protect the Christian population from violent radical Muslim groups. The group is no longer working towards a goal, but fights simply to stay in power. This group is infamous for mutilating victims, selling young captives into the sex trade, and most of all forcing children to become soldiers and commit terrible acts against humanity. I agree with Joe Brettel that the LRA must be stopped, as no torture and war crimes of this magnitude should go unpunished, however I think we should be careful to not mislabel the reasons we enter a conflict. The last sentence that Brettel writes in the editorial says something along the lines of," Uganda's children as well as America's children will benefit from the arrest of Joseph Kony." That statement is only half true if you ask me. Aiding Uganda in the capture of Kony will have absolutely no effect on children in the US whatsoever. Hell, most Americans hadn't ever heard of the matter untill a week ago. So if we'r going to lend a hand, lets be honest about why. Before I watched the video I never would have supported Americans entering another conflict. I now believe we are obligated to intervene, theirs never a reason to allow a genocide to occur. I do think that we should limit the amount of troops on the ground in Uganda to a minimum, and remember that child soldiers are common in third world countries. It's even fairly common practice with paramilitary groups as close as Mexico and all over South America. We can't police the entire universe, and sometimes it does feel like they're trying to, but on the other hand, for once we'd be fighting a war for a reason other than money. I hate the idea of spending U.S tax dollars outside the U.S as much as the next man, but can we really sit back and watch a holocaust?http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/11/11/why-gop-candidates-should-care-about-uganda-conservative-case/
3/30/2012-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I feel like an idiot now, screw politics I'm grabbing a beer
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