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#252: Mar 9th 2012 at 5:21:47 AM
Cheers to the Snopes message board for pointing me at this Blog on the subject
, from a Ugandan author. I'm using the quote too:
Before anyone says ‘why haven’t you done anything to stop Kony?’, may I point out that it took the world’s most sophisticated army over a decade and billions of dollars to catch Osama bin Laden. Kony has been on the run for 25+ years. On a continent 3 times the size of America. Catching & stopping him is not a priority of immediate concern. You know what is? Finding a bed net so that millions of kids don’t die every day from malaria. How many of you know that more Ugandans died in road accidents last year (2838) than have died in the past 3 years from LRA attacks in whole of central Africa(2400)? We’ve picked our battles and we chose to simply try to live. And the world should be helping us live on our own terms, by respecting our agency to choose which battles to put capacity towards.
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#253: Mar 9th 2012 at 9:16:20 AM
I wonder if there are any lessons to be learnt from the Malayan Emergency of The '50s.
After all, this looks like something that's going to take a long time to shut down, and by a using "Hearts And Minds" Campaign. And remember, for something like this, this quote is something to remember (bold mine):
In purely military terms, the British Army recognized that in a low-intensity war, the individual soldier's skill and endurance was of far greater importance than overwhelming firepower (artillery, air support, etc.) Even though many British soldiers were conscripted National Servicemen, the necessary skills and attitudes were taught at a Jungle Warfare School, which also worked out the optimum tactics based on experience gained in the field.
This isn't something that is going to be won by Superior Firepower — quite the reverse.
Keep Rolling On
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Good luck finding the motherfucker.
And while I think is a good thing that people raise awearness about monsters... its is kind of sad that it came this late, when everyone was already on top of that guy.
No sincerly, every goverment in the area wantS the bastard death. There are many other such monsters in many regions of the world guilty of very similar atrocities that still get no press at all.
But this is the sort of situations in which some US intervention I think could be good.
edited 8th Mar '12 8:28:03 PM by Baff
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