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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWeren't we supposed to save Africa from Joseph Kony?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_KonyYou know, that guy who was going to be the new Hitler and whom the irresponsible far-left pacifists were "supporting/appeasing".
What happened? Get in line ISIS, there a few more "new Hitlers" that are still out there.
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Weren't we supposed to save Africa from Joseph Kony? (Original Post)
redgreenandblue
Sep 2014
OP
I am sure our leaders were quite motivated by the hundereds of thousands of signatures in online
Erose999
Sep 2014
#2
or maybe we shouldn't be "saving" anyone from the inexhaustible supply Hitlers.
FLPanhandle
Sep 2014
#4
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)1. As I recall, people started realizing that
both he and the people he was fighting were total scumbags, and, of course, that Uganda doesn't have any particular natural resources the US cares about exploiting. So the victimization of children, women, and gays in Uganda goes on unchecked.
Erose999
(5,624 posts)2. I am sure our leaders were quite motivated by the hundereds of thousands of signatures in online
petitions, and the hundreds of thousands of E-mails their interns had to read.
I knew the thing was going nowhere when I saw that annoying guy getting all buddy buddy with sleazy bastard James Inhoefe.
I feel bad for those affected by the violence in Africa, but I hope the people who made the Kony 2012 film go bankrupt and go the hell away.
derby378
(30,252 posts)3. Who?
Last I heard, Boko Haram's "the enemy" in Africa now, but we can't be bothered with them because ISIS.
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)4. or maybe we shouldn't be "saving" anyone from the inexhaustible supply Hitlers.
We have enough issues right here.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)5. Interest died out when it stopped trending on Twitter.
ISIS is the new hotness...