So All of a Sudden We're The UN?

President Obama - and Congress - have very quietly authorized sending 100 troops into Uganda. Yeah, 100 isn't much - but there will doubtless be more. The point is... why. Why are we doing this under our aegis instead of that of the UN? Doesn't the UN have peacekeepers that are supposed to go in and sort out local problems?

According to Rush, the Lord's Army, which Obama's troops are supposed to help suppress, are Christians, and they are fighting against Muslims.

Also according to Rush, the mandate of these 100 troops is to help kill the enemy. One wonders if any of these guys will be eligible for the "Compassionate Restraint" medal which is the medal given out to our toops in Iraq.

Lord's Resistance Army objectives. I have them here. "To remove dictatorship and stop the oppression of our people." Now, again Lord's Resistance Army is who Obama sent troops to help nations wipe out. The objectives of the Lord's Resistance Army, what they're trying to accomplish with their military action in these countries is the following: "To remove dictatorship and stop the oppression of our people; to fight for the immediate restoration of the competitive multiparty democracy in Uganda; to see an end to gross violation of human rights and dignity of Ugandans; to ensure the restoration of peace and security in Uganda, to ensure unity, sovereignty, and economic prosperity beneficial to all Ugandans, and to bring to an end the repressive policy of deliberate marginalization of groups of people who may not agree with the LRA ideology." Those are the objectives of the group that we are fighting, or who are being fought and we are joining in the effort to remove them from the battlefield.

The government of Uganda claims that Lord's Resistance Army only has 500 or a thousand soldiers in total. So what's the threat? If that's the maximum size of their army, what's the threat? A thousand soldiers? Now, 1100 soldiers because we have sent a hundred. I'm not making this up. This is Jacob Tapper. ABC News had reported that Obama got a letter off to John Boehner a couple days ago announcing this. It's just for a few months until the Lord's Resistance Army is eradicated. That's all. Just a few months. Not much of a threat.

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