President Obama has announced that he plans to send troops to Central Africa to teach locals how to defend themselves and fight against Lord's Resistance Army a violent group that kills, abducts forces children into taking part in hostile acts, and forces women and children into sexual enslavement.
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-10-14/africa/world_africa_africa-obama-troops_1_obama-orders-south-sudan-central-african-republic?_s=PM:AFRICA
Many applaud the president for taking a more active role in the region, but we have know about the LRA for more than a decade. The group formed in 1987 and for many years was at war with the Ugandan government. The real question should not be what will we do in Central Africa to stop these travesties but why have we not already taken care of the problem. The U.S. has since 2008 provided aid to Central Africa and non-lethal supplies but we have not taken actual action against this group until now. Another question we should be asking ourselves is with the president executing U.S. Citizen Anwar al-Awlaki without trial for speech crimes (a very controversial topic seeing as some feel even though his message was clearly disturbed and morbidly wrong disgustingly so that he still had freedom of speech.)
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/a/anwar_al_awlaki/index.html
Why have we not already executed military action against Joseph Kony (the leader of LRA) and other high ranking members of the group as Obama now plans. Why has the U.S. allowed such a terrible and ongoing tragedy to stay for the most part out of the public's eye only to go in now years after the problem started?
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