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Originally posted by Agent_USA_Supporter
reply to post by JacKatMtn
Interesting to note Lord's Resistance Army is a Christian Army Fighting against the Radicals in there country.
Political payback behind US special forces deployment to Uganda?
...Some experts believe that the U.S. military advisers sent to Uganda could be a reward for the U.S.-funded Ugandan troops service in Somalia.
"I've been hearing that. I don't know if our group necessarily agrees with that, but it definitely would make sense," said Matt Brown, a spokesman for the Enough Project, a U.S. group working to end genocide and crimes against humanity, especially in central Africa...
International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect c/o World Federalist Movement - Institute for Global Policy
After Obama announced earlier this week that he would be sending American troops into Uganda, WND uncovered billionaire activist George Soros' ties both to the political pressure behind the decision and to the African nation's fledgling oil industry.
Soros sits on the executive board of an influential "crisis management organization" that recently recommended the U.S. deploy a special advisory military team to Uganda to help with operations and run an intelligence platform, a recommendation Obama's action seems to fulfill.
The president emeritus of that organization, the International Crisis Group, is also the principal author of "Responsibility to Protect," the military doctrine used by Obama to justify the U.S.-led NATO campaign in Libya.
Soros' own Open Society Institute is one of only three nongovernmental funders of the Global Centre for Responsibility to Protect, a doctrine that has been cited many times by activists urging intervention in Uganda.
Authors and advisers of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine, including a center founded and led by Samantha Power, the National Security Council special adviser to Obama on human rights, also helped to found the International Criminal Court.
A 2008 national oil and gas policy, proposed with aid from a Soros-funded group, was supposed to be a general road map for the handling and use of the oil. However, the policy's recommendations have been largely ignored, with critics accusing Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni of corruption and of tightening his grip on the African country's emerging oil sector.
Soros himself has been closely tied to oil and other interests in Uganda.
In 2008, the Soros-funded Revenue Watch Institute brought together stakeholders from Uganda and other East African countries to discuss critical governance issues, including the formation of what became Uganda's national oil and gas policy.
In April 2010 Soros' International Crisis Group, or ICG, released a report sent to the White House and key lawmakers advising the U.S. military run special operations in Uganda to seek Kony's capture.
The report states, "To the U.S. government: Deploy a team to the theatre of operations to run an intelligence platform that centralizes all operational information from the Ugandan and other armies, as well as the U.N. and civilian networks, and provides analysis to the Ugandans to better target military operations."
Since 2008 the U.S. has been providing financial aid in the form of military equipment to Uganda and the other regional countries to fight Kony's LRA, but Obama's new deployment escalates the direct U.S. involvement.
Soros himself outlined the fundamentals of Responsibility to Protect in a 2004 Foreign Policy magazine article titled "The People's Sovereignty: How a New Twist on an Old Idea Can Protect the World's Most Vulnerable Populations."
In the article Soros said, "True sovereignty belongs to the people, who in turn delegate it to their governments."
"If governments abuse the authority entrusted to them and citizens have no opportunity to correct such abuses, outside interference is justified," Soros wrote. "By specifying that sovereignty is based on the people, the international community can penetrate nation-states' borders to protect the rights of citizens.
Originally posted by JacKatMtn
reply to post by jibeho
Heard that this morning, it seems that there was legislation passed by overwhelming bipartisan support that cleared the way for this latest move with the military.
The news folks were sent scrambling as this was dumped on their lap on Friday afternoon, I need to find out where to subscribe to the White House's Friday document release, there has been some jaw dropping material lately
I understand that this Kony guy is bad news, but I still can't help but think that this effort is to just clear the way for big oil to be able to move in safety as they start to exploit the oil & gas reserves in this region of the continent.
This latest from MSNBC tries to show why this is happening:
Political payback behind US special forces deployment to Uganda?
...Some experts believe that the U.S. military advisers sent to Uganda could be a reward for the U.S.-funded Ugandan troops service in Somalia.
"I've been hearing that. I don't know if our group necessarily agrees with that, but it definitely would make sense," said Matt Brown, a spokesman for the Enough Project, a U.S. group working to end genocide and crimes against humanity, especially in central Africa...
edit on Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:00:47 -0500 by JacKatMtn because: sp
Originally posted by DuneKnight
Wow, people will not take any humanitarian effort by gov at face value. Going into africa was long overdue, wasnt it? Obama is sure planning some world police drone thing and Africa is a big step. Cant imagine it being oil-driven since Obama's mindset is to chase green energy.
Originally posted by JacKatMtn
reply to post by pirhanna
Maybe oil again?
Sudan
Uganda
Kenya
Originally posted by Turq1
I don't see this as a bad move considering that group should have been taken down years ago. Typically, the US goes to war over the bigger things and lets the smaller atrocities, which would be relatively easy to dismantle, go unnoticed.
Yeah, "policing the world" is not a good policy, but in this case I think there's an exception. How some can complain about this move, pretty odd really. If we want to keep whatever image we have left on the world stage, you can't let stuff like this go freely.edit on 16-10-2011 by Turq1 because: (no reason given)
The Yinon Plan, which is a continuation of British stratagem in the Middle East, is an Israeli strategic plan to ensure Israeli superiority. It insists and stipulates that Israel must reconfigure its geo-political environment through the balkanization of the Middle Eastern and Arab states into smaller and weaker states.
Israeli strategists viewed Iraq as their biggest strategic challenge from an Arab state. This is why Iraq was outlined as the centerpiece to the balkanization of the Middle East and the Arab World. In Iraq, on the basis of the concepts of the Yinon Plan, Israeli strategists have called for the division of Iraq into a Kurdish state and two Arab states, one for Shiite Muslims and the other for Sunni Muslims. The first step towards establishing this was a war between Iraq and Iran, which the Yinon Plan discusses.
Originally posted by Dimitri Dzengalshlevi
Originally posted by Turq1
I don't see this as a bad move considering that group should have been taken down years ago. Typically, the US goes to war over the bigger things and lets the smaller atrocities, which would be relatively easy to dismantle, go unnoticed.
Yeah, "policing the world" is not a good policy, but in this case I think there's an exception. How some can complain about this move, pretty odd really. If we want to keep whatever image we have left on the world stage, you can't let stuff like this go freely.edit on 16-10-2011 by Turq1 because: (no reason given)
There are no exceptions! The Americans are not world police!
This is what the UN and its peacekeeping forces are for. This is what the African Union's forces are for. What does the US have to do with African affairs?
Originally posted by Dimitri Dzengalshlevi
Originally posted by DuneKnight
Wow, people will not take any humanitarian effort by gov at face value. Going into africa was long overdue, wasnt it? Obama is sure planning some world police drone thing and Africa is a big step. Cant imagine it being oil-driven since Obama's mindset is to chase green energy.
Are you being sarcastic?
There is nothing humanitarian about war. Sending in special forces "advisors" to take out a target in a foreign country is about securing national interests in foreign land.
Obama has a green energy mindset? Couldn't be oil driven? Riiiiight
Originally posted by Turq1
Originally posted by Dimitri Dzengalshlevi
Originally posted by Turq1
I don't see this as a bad move considering that group should have been taken down years ago. Typically, the US goes to war over the bigger things and lets the smaller atrocities, which would be relatively easy to dismantle, go unnoticed.
Yeah, "policing the world" is not a good policy, but in this case I think there's an exception. How some can complain about this move, pretty odd really. If we want to keep whatever image we have left on the world stage, you can't let stuff like this go freely.edit on 16-10-2011 by Turq1 because: (no reason given)
There are no exceptions! The Americans are not world police!
This is what the UN and its peacekeeping forces are for. This is what the African Union's forces are for. What does the US have to do with African affairs?
That's fine and dandy and everything, but surely within the 23 years the LRA has been around one of the above mentioned could have acted to stop it.edit on 17-10-2011 by Turq1 because: (no reason given)
DuneKnight-
his national interest is to make africa safe so Al qaeda wont seek sanctuary there with the likes of kony.
jerico65-
Why doesn't anyone on ATS seem to have any problems with the obvious buying of influence the Chinese are doing all over the world?
There are no exceptions! The Americans are not world police!
This is what the UN and its peacekeeping forces are for. This is what the African Union's forces are for. What does the US have to do with African affairs?