Forum Post: US troops in Uganda for Oil?
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 19, 2011, 12:42 a.m. EST by littrellb
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I have heard and read a few reports that recently a large amount of oil has been found in Uganda. Now the problem with the rebel armies and child soldiers have been going on for many many years. So I ask you, why are we going now?
And I believe that this ties into OWS because it is just another example of the US government reaching out its military arm into oil. just like iraq. Now i am all for abolishing these rebel armies that are a serious problem in the region but why didnt we do it years ago?
Funny how stuff like this gets all twisted around to fit depending on whoever's political views. The righties are saying that it's because of Soros' interests. lol
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 1:50 PM EST
By Aaron Klein
TEL AVIV — An influential “crisis management organization” that boasts billionaire George Soros as a member of its executive board recently recommended the U.S. deploy a special advisory military team to Uganda to help with operations and run an intelligence platform.
The president-emeritus of that organization, the International Crisis Group, is 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.
Several of the doctrine’s main founders also sit on boards with Soros, who is a major proponent of the doctrine.
Soros himself maintains close ties to oil interests in Uganda. His organizations have been the leading efforts purportedly to facilitate more transparency in Uganda’s oil industry, which is being tightly controlled by the country’s leadership.
So what is your untwisted take on the situation?
I think honestly in this case it's pretty much because he's about the most evil guy currently on the planet and now we can.
BTW this isn't new really. There have been efforts to go after him going back to 2003. But because of a variety of issues with the governments in the area there wasn't really much we could do. We have provided assistance in the past but not boots on the ground.
He's an extraordinarily hard guy to get to because he moves all the time and doesn't take in anyone other than the kids that he kidnaps. So very hard to track and basically impossible for anyone to infiltrate. The idea now with our people on the ground is that we can provide better recon and intelligence assistance to help hunt him down.
Yeah, I am all for getting the guy. I just hope that we are really doing it because it is the right thing to do.
Various NGO- and human rights-type groups have been asking us to help for a while so not just something that we're initiating on our own.
As much as I don't like us being the world's police force, in this case I support it.
The "he" above being Joseph Kony. If you don't know who this guy is, then you should look him up. I think you'll likely agree that somebody needs to put an end to him.