Posted on 10/14/2011 11:16:50 AM PDT by ColdOne
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 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.”
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Obama needs as many distraction from the current scandals as he can get. He thought about going to war with his good buddy Imanutjob, but that’s temporaraly on the back burner, just milking that one will be a major distraction. Look for multiple little spats here and there, as the scandals build, then major distractions toward the calls for impeachment.
BUMP THAT!
We really shouldn’t care. The days of US playing international peacekeeper must end. It was never our job.
The reason we’re still in Europe and Japan is political and strategic, but both should be re-examined in light of an empty Treasury and hostilities along our southern border.
Defending Muslims in Europe, ME, and in Africa is self-wounding, and the State Department is the most likely culprit for that stance.
No not now, Numb-nutts Obama has been working toward this since Dec 2008...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/25/us-plan-disarm-rebels-central-africa
This a liberal’s war, like Bosnia and Kosovo.
Exactly. We shouldn’t be supporting Muslims in eastern Europe either, but we are there anyway.
Quagmire Alert...!!
I didn’t say we should go there or not.
You misread my post.
What the hell—Uganda?
Since when are we the world’s policemen?
Under the Constitution, only the Congress, NOT the President, has the power to declare war.
I believe the war powers act was adopted to provide to the exigencies of current military situations where a formal declaration of war is not made and an imminent military emergency exists. Obama has violated the War Powers Act by continuing to maintain American Forces in the field in Libya beyond the timeframe permitted under that act. In this situation, he, like Clinton before him, has committed American forces in a situation where America’s direct interests do not appear to be directly involved.
The President, under the Consitution, has the sole power to direct the military and carry on war, but only after approval of Congress.
“I didn’t say we should go there or not.”
Ok literally true, but your post basically argued that the guys Obama says he is going in to oppose, are the bad guys. So do you think there is any American interest there that justifies the use of American troops?
I may have misunderstood you, I thought you were talking about stripping away the power to command the US Military without the consent of Congress which I believe can never be taken from the President.
Maybe some can make an argument this is apart of the War on Terror.
According to this Wiki article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terror
The George W. Bush administration defined the following objectives in the War on Terror:[38]
1. Defeat terrorists such as Osama bin Laden, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and destroy their organizations
2. Identify, locate and destroy terrorists along with their organizations
3. Deny sponsorship, support and sanctuary to terrorists 1. End the state sponsorship of terrorism
2. Establish and maintain an international standard of accountability with regard to combating terrorism
3. Strengthen and sustain the international effort to fight terrorism
4. Work with willing and able states
5. Enable weak states
6. Persuade reluctant states
7. Compel unwilling states
8. Interdict and disrupt material support for terrorists
9. Eliminate terrorist sanctuaries and havens
4. Diminish the underlying conditions that terrorists seek to exploit
1. Partner with the international community to strengthen weak states and prevent (re)emergence of terrorism
2. Win the war of ideals
5. Defend US citizens and interests at home and abroad 1. Implement the National Strategy for Homeland Security
2. Attain domain awareness
3. Enhance measures to ensure the integrity, reliability, and availability of critical physical and information-based infrastructures at home and abroad
4. Integrate measures to protect US citizens abroad
5. Ensure an integrated incident management capability
^ President Bush Releases National Strategy for Combating Terrorism, February 14, 2003, The White House
that’s disgusting.
and we have to refer to obama as a “Christian”?
Maybe some can make an argument this is apart of the War on Terror.
According to this Wiki article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terror
The George W. Bush administration defined the following objectives in the War on Terror:[38]
A. Defeat terrorists such as Osama bin Laden, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and destroy their organizations
B. Identify, locate and destroy terrorists along with their organizations
C. Deny sponsorship, support and sanctuary to terrorists
1. End the state sponsorship of terrorism
2. Establish and maintain an international standard of accountability with regard to combating terrorism
3. Strengthen and sustain the international effort to fight terrorism
4. Work with willing and able states
5. Enable weak states
6. Persuade reluctant states
7. Compel unwilling states
8. Interdict and disrupt material support for terrorists
9. Eliminate terrorist sanctuaries and havens
D. Diminish the underlying conditions that terrorists seek to exploit
1. Partner with the international community to strengthen weak states and prevent (re)emergence of terrorism
2. Win the war of ideals
E. Defend US citizens and interests at home and abroad 1. Implement the National Strategy for Homeland Security
2. Attain domain awareness
3. Enhance measures to ensure the integrity, reliability, and availability of critical physical and information-based infrastructures at home and abroad
4. Integrate measures to protect US citizens abroad
5. Ensure an integrated incident management capability
^ President Bush Releases National Strategy for Combating Terrorism, February 14, 2003, The White House
No. I was just referring to the President despatching American troops all over the place wherever it suits him without a formal declaration of war.
And from our inillustrious Congress?...
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Supporting an Obama adventure in Central Africa, by using the Bush effort fight muslim terror attacks post 9/11 is not too welcome here.
(and yes i know, you merely said “some” would argue, certainly not you!)
So again,, where do YOU stand on it? In YOUR opinion does Obama have it right and this is a vital national interest?
Is,nt that how our involvement in Vietnam started out?
Isn’t that how our involvement in Vietnam started out?
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