Troops to Uganda?

[Streck-Fu]

Anything new above the typical soup sandwich going ons? Not much news traffic so what prompts troop deployment?

Uganda

Obama Sends 100 US Troops to Uganda to Help Combat Lord’s Resistance Army

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.”

The president said that for more than two decades the LRA has been responsible for having “murdered, raped, and kidnapped tens of thousands of men, women, and children in central Africa” and continues to “commit atrocities across the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Sudan that have a disproportionate impact on regional security.”

Update: A Defense Department official tells ABC’s Luis Martinez at the Pentagon that the U.S. troops will be in Africa “for a few months in an advisory role.”

[Pete]

US Troops go in and out of African countries all the time. All branches doing many different types of FID type work.

This leans a little more to the ground side.

I like the Lake Victoria section of Africa.

[Team Sergeant]

Obama send troops to Uganda.

Amusing.

The biggest war in the history of the drug cartels is currently being waged. This drug war is affecting the United States directly. People are being killed on both sides.

Makes me wonder if the Teleprompter Reader of the United States of America is "doing a favor" for his father?

[Team Sergeant]

This also changes the focus on Eric Holder's behalf doesn't it......

[trvlr]

Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

Obama send troops to Uganda.
Makes me wonder if the Teleprompter Reader of the United States of America is "doing a favor" for his father?

I heard a lot of extremist liberals saying the same thing about GB Junior and OIF. This Uganda op seems only slightly more plausible to me.

[Team Sergeant]

Originally Posted by trvlr

I heard a lot of extremist liberals saying the same thing about GB Junior and OIF. This Uganda op seems only slightly more plausible to me.

trvlr,
Apples and oranges. Keep up on your history, especially your current events.
TS

[Utah Bob]

Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

This also changes the focus on Eric Holder's behalf doesn't it......

Pure coincidence I'm sure.

[trvlr]

Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

trvlr,
Apples and oranges. Keep up on your history, especially your current events.
TS

WILCO

[Mycroft]

I'm ok with this.

Here are some links for a rundown on the target:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Resistance_Army

Note specifically that Congress passed the "Lord's Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act", which was voted into law unanimously.

The Leader of the LRA is a man by the name of Joseph Kony.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kony

I don't think anyone here will mind if Kony gets removed from the picture by these forces.

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by Mycroft

I'm ok with this.

Here are some links for a rundown on the target:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Resistance_Army

Note specifically that Congress passed the "Lord's Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act", which was voted into law unanimously.

The Leader of the LRA is a man by the name of Joseph Kony.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kony

I don't think anyone here will mind if Kony gets removed from the picture by these forces.

Then, why don't you join the Military so you can fight people like Kony?

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by trvlr

I heard a lot of extremist liberals saying the same thing about GB Junior and OIF. This Uganda op seems only slightly more plausible to me.

You hanging out with extremist liberals again?

[glebo]

Originally Posted by Pete

US Troops go in and out of African countries all the time. All branches doing many different types of FID type work.

This leans a little more to the ground side.

I like the Lake Victoria section of Africa.

mmm, mega chew meat and beans and critters, and mega grits.....remember it all so well

[Pete]

Originally Posted by glebo

mmm, mega chew meat and beans and critters, and mega grits.....remember it all so well

I think I still have a few pictures of you and Bob in a Land Rover in the middle of nowhere - parked next to a stone marker with two country's names on it.

My, My, weren't we having fun.

[Sigaba]

Originally Posted by Mycroft

I'm ok with this.

Here are some links for a rundown on the target:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Resistance_Army

Note specifically that Congress passed the "Lord's Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act", which was voted into law unanimously.

The Leader of the LRA is a man by the name of Joseph Kony.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kony

I don't think anyone here will mind if Kony gets removed from the picture by these forces.

Mycroft--

A reminder. Wikipedia is not regarded as a reliable source by many members of this BB. If you do some digging--either here or on wikipedia --you'll find the reasons why.

HTH.

[Streck-Fu]

I have no issue with any one eliminating Kony but why is the deployment even mentioned if not to wag to dog? Will this go better than 2009?