"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.
The forces will deploy beginning with a small group and grow over the next month to 100. They will ultimately go to Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with the permission of those countries.
The president made this announcement in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, Friday afternoon, saying that 'deploying these U.S. Armed Forces furthers U.S. national security interests and foreign policy and will be a significant contribution toward counter-LRA efforts in central Africa.'
He said that 'although the U.S. forces are combat-equipped, they will only be providing information, advice, and assistance to partner nation forces, and they will not themselves engage LRA forces unless necessary for self-defense'...”
ABC News
Not that I'd wager money I don't have, but it would be nice to have some spare change for an over/under bet on how long it takes our good liberal pundits to mount a Responsibility to Protect defense of the latest move from our Nobel Laureate War President.
I'm going with six hours.
As for their conservative brethren, I figure it'll take them at least eight hours to figure out how to criticize the Preznit for his application of the Clinton-Bush-Obama Doctrine while still singing paeans to the Noble Troops and their struggle to improve the lives of all the women they themselves are currently not occupying and raping...
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That fucking shit is depressing. I'm not a pacifist, by any stretch, but the brazenness of the Laureate's dedication to the expansion of permanent war leaves me wondering if those of us bound by the homeland's borders have any capacity to stop this shit anymore. I mean, I wouldn't exactly applaud the shooting of Senators and other imperial functionaries, but I don't think I could bring myself to condemn it, either.
In lieu of getting myself watch-listed for advocating domestic terrorism, here's some Azam Ali to sing us through to a better tomorrow, even if it's only imaginary:
(Lasse Pour Quoi)
(Ben Pode Santa Maria)
Crow's Eye: Maintaining a commitment to Pointless Acrimony™ and Hate Filled Invective™! Also available in corvid mischief and traditional sly dog's mistrust.
Not that I'd wager money I don't have, but i'd take the under.
ReplyDeleteYou'd probably win, Montag. Six hours was too generous.
ReplyDeleteHe said that 'although the U.S. forces are combat-equipped, they will only be providing information, advice, and assistance to partner nation forces, and they will not themselves engage LRA forces unless necessary for self-defense'...
ReplyDeleteI am guessing that information, advice, and assistance by email or telephone is out of the question.
We should just make a bomb the size of earth and cut a hole in it the shape of the US
ReplyDeleteWe could all just become highlanders and wander the earth in an eternal quest for glory and knowledge by engaging anyone with a sword in a duel to the death.
ReplyDelete...I mean, I wouldn't exactly applaud the shooting of Senators and other imperial functionaries, but I don't think I could bring myself to condemn it, either...
ReplyDeleteI think a legitimate case can be made that putting elected officials in the line of fire is noblesse oblige at its finest. Since they so loudly preach the value of personal risk to others, perhaps it's time they routinely took some of this personal risk upon themselves.
Yeah, I dream too much.
This move by the O team was expected.
ReplyDeleteIt is not about Uganda.
It is about not cutting the defense budget, AFRICOM, and Somalia.
Now that a foot print is in Libya, they want to further the path.
China is using soft power, we will use the only thing we love and have dear to us.
SHOCK AND AWE.
Just as with the Iran "plot" [fabricated] beware of future false flags.