Posted on 10/20/2011 3:09:06 PM PDT by SoonerStorm09
OKLAHOMA CITY – So far, the only presidential candidate to seriously address the recent decision by President Obama to send 100 military advisors to Uganda to assist in capturing the leaders of the terror group Lord’s Resistance Army is libertarian-leading Gary Johnson.
Johnson, the former, two-term Republican governor of New Mexico, addressed the question from Red Dirt Report regarding the plan to cripple the LRA after two decades of operating with impunity.
The LRA, numbering now at approximately 400 rebels, many mostly kidnapped, conscripted children, has targeted villagers largely in northern Uganda, raping maiming, and murdering among other atrocities.
So, with the weight of recent anti-LRA legislation, the Lord's Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009, pushed by Oklahoma’s U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe and approved by the president, the troops were sent there a few days ago in the guise of a humanitarian mission.
The U.S. Special Forces headed to Africa are said to be monitoring and assisting local government troops in the central-east African “great lakes” region, primarily in Uganda.
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“...[LRA]targeted villagers largely in northern Uganda, raping maiming, and murdering among other atrocities...”
The same tactics are used by everyone in Africa. So what?
It ain’t our problem. The LRA are Christians fighting against Muslim slavers.
Then he’s not a libertarian.
LINO
So Johnson is another international interventionista.
No thanks.
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