KONY 2012

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17. The whole region is a mess...

...I think it's pretty clear the United States does not care to intervene in sub-Saharan Africa (Remember 1994).

I remain a fervent internationalist and humanitarian who does believe that armed intervention is required - I don't have the luxury of pretending that things will just be better off if the world stays out of it - my mother's family made it through the Holocaust in Poland. If some wish to characterize me as a militarist and imperialist for believing that international law can and should be enforced so be it. But I supported our intervention in Libya and I would support greater intervention in the DRC - you must remember that the UN already has peacekeepers there, but they are not engaged in a military mission to suppress the militias. Joseph Kony should have been on the shit list more than a decade ago. I wish the United States would sign the Rome Statute and it puts money where its mouth is because having this sort of vague double standard is only causing confusion and is not supporting international law and human rights like we should be. I believe in the Truman Doctrine and I believe in the United Nations and the concurrent international conventions of genocide etc. I think we would see a lot less of this nonsense if we were as good as our words.

Gaddafi was scum and Libya and the world are better off without him. Gaddafi backed Idi Amin with Libyan troops, trained/financed Foday Sankoh and the RUF, backed the communists in Ethiopia, waged war against Chad and committed numerous atrocities against his own people. Fuck Gaddafi.