Comments on: Stop “Stop Kony 2012″? http://kenan.ethics.duke.edu/teamkenan/stop-stop-kony-2012/ Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:09:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 By: Leonard http://kenan.ethics.duke.edu/teamkenan/stop-stop-kony-2012/#comment-97 Leonard Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:44:21 +0000 http://www.teamkenan.org/?p=2044#comment-97 I would say that this campaign is ill-timed as far as the residents of northern Uganda are concerned. As for other people, whether they get informed 3 minutes or 100 years after an incident doesn’t really matter if they are not going to do anything meaningful to the people who suffered harm. If this campaign doesn’t result on pressure being applied on the Ugandan government to change its stance on Northern Uganda, then Northern Ugandans would have been better off without all the publicity.

Does having 100 US soldiers in Uganda really help the situation? I believe not. Museveni is taking the world for a ride because the situation is as it is simply because of its negligence of Northern Uganda. If indeed it was committed to defeating Kony, it would not only have waged war on him and LRA, but also committed resources to the economic development of Northern Uganda instead of leaving the welfare of the people to be taken care of only by aid agencies.

So what are 100 US soldiers doing advising the Ugandan Army when Kony is reported to be somewhere in the jungles of the DR Congo? Shouldn’t these soldiers have been forwarded to the Congolese Army?

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