Jubbergun wrote:
What little I've read makes me think that this is none of our business. It's tribalism at its worst. This Kony fellow may be a complete bastard (and probably is), but I doubt he's any worse than the complete bastards he's trying to kill. As is typical of us, we "pick a side," slap a bad guy label on anyone effective who isn't on that side, and ignore any and all of the atrocities committed by those on the side we've picked. We expect people who live outside the US in radically different circumstances to behave according to our norms, and are somehow shocked when teenagers in third world countries are involved in military/guerrilla actions. These people are decades behind us in a lot of the ways that count, and you could have found an American teenager in much the same position during the American Civil War.
This very slick marketing campaign smells funny to me. It's like someone is looking for enough public outrage to justify sending troops to places where we have no obvious interests.
I agree completely. Jubber's point about the Civil War in particular is right on.
And yes this is all about a silent resources war we're engaging in with China.
It's also racist because the entire selling point is that they are black and therefore backward and beyond helping.
...wait, was I supposed to be disagreeing or something? I'm just expressing my opinion.
