TheHeretic
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Joined: 3/25/2007 From: California, USA Status: offline
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It's fucking Uganda, Popeye. Idi Amin's old stomping grounds. We are hardly meddling in the affairs of our old friends. It's a place that mostly knows poverty and brutality like we cannot imagine. Do we have any national interest at all here, besides maybe trying to maintain some of the goodwill Bush built in Africa, with his AIDS funding? Nope. I know that is a dealbreaker for you, but I'm ok with some global charity work. We aren't jumping into somebody else's civil war, or seeking to overthrow a government. If we can remove Kony from the battlefield (don't you love the euphemisms from our Nobel Peace Prize winner?), there is some chance at making that little corner of the globe a better place. If we are deploying to help send him off to hell, and get back out again, I'm good. If the mission is going to morph into anything other than that, I'll reserve the right to change my mind. Creating an opportunity for them to unfuck themselves a bit is one thing, trying to do it for them is something else entirely.
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