What purpose does it serve? That KONY video was made in 1999 I think lol. It just went viral now lol

The expert said KONY and his terrorist band isnt even in that country anymore. He is in a nearby country lol

 

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Invisible Children has picked an easy target: Joseph Kony. Why stop there? More to the point, if this works, will it ever stop? Will simplistic explanations of long-running wars, delivered in a Facebook-friendly manner become the future of foreign policy? If the opinion of Rihanna and George Clooney is going to dislodge ‘technocrats’ who do things like read the Military Balance, then what’s to stop intervention in Syria? Pretty much everyone with a passing interest in military affairs says “that is a very bad idea and lots of people will die” but I’m pretty sure that a bright person with access to youtube can come up with a better argument for a brighter world in which taking Assad down is an expression of democratic empowerment. The point about war and military affairs is that at some point, it requires restraint. That restraint is entirely arbitrary (and unfair) but it stops people getting killed. If Angelina Jolie in combination with Condoleeza Rice are to dictate American strategy, then restraints to force will disappear into a blur of “Let’s go get the bad guy” activism that is almost entirely ignorant of the second and third order effects of those decisions.

don't get me wrong, raising the profile of the heinous nature of the guy’s crimes is awesome. The idea that popular opinion can be leveraged with viral marketing to induce foreign military intervention is really, really dangerous. It is immoral to try and sell a sanitised vision of foreign intervention that neglects the fact that people will die as a result. That goes for politicians as much as for Invisible children.

 

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The US is already involved. It has advisors there helping to find him. It would do no good go send in massive amounts of US troops.

 

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It's nothing but a pure globalist propaganda. The implication is to create a moralist argument for interventionism.

 

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i have no idea what KONY or Invisible Children are

 

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Who is Kony?

 

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The LRA is currently operating somewhere between the Central African Republic, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Combined with Uganda, those four states have him penned in. The problem being, pressure in one will lead to him skipping across the border into another. Unless Kony 2012 want state militaries to start walking across borders after him, that’s four pretty weak state governments that need to be considered. How much will their armed forces cost to bring up to scratch? The alternative might be to arm one, and let them play Texas ranger across the borders of three other sovereign states. I’m not using sovereignty here as a barrier, but it’s something to consider. Helpfully, the video excludes the fact that Uganda helped invade the DRC in the 1990s, DRC politicians are currently under indictment for war crimes committed in the CAR and when Uganda went into South Sudan to chase Kony, their own troops were accused of killing and kidnapping South Sudanese civilians. I’m no Africa specialist, but that sounds like a disaster in the making if one of them is going to be given carte blanche to go after Kony, if such a thing is possible.

 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc

 

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Lol it has been more fun making fun of all the anti people than the people sharing it. Although this made me lol hard

 

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we only seem to care when something is "trending", when someone makes a video that pulls at the heartstrings that a lot of people can identify with. The problem with this is that its not real political involvement, its slacktivism, and leads only to a warm and fuzzy feeling that we are ethical. I think that the people who go build the schools, that take the chances of death to go give much needed medical aid ( DWB)those are the only real invested individuals; not the re-posters (sitting in starbucks, reading the news on their brand new ipads). Occupy got people involved, but this KONY campain, in many ways, is maybe 10% real politically invested people and 90% re-posters who want to feel good about themselves ("I'm involved", "I'm political" "i care" "Look at me!". This latter trend is much more destructive than inactivity, its selfish and inauthentic; it makes us feel good about ourselves, but ignores the destructive influence we have in the world, and ignores all the other issues that are just as brutal. We should be disgusted by Kony's actions, but we should also be disgusted by the fact that WE, as global citizens, ONLY care about THIS event when we should always be disgusted about this stuff. Attention to the problem of child soldier armies and warlords fighting turf wars has been discussed and published with high frequency since the 80s, and we only care now? because this guy is somehow worst? NO, its the same as the charity bracelet of the week, we only care when its visible, and when we don't want to be seen to not care when a lot of others do... that is the true disgusting face of society. So if you want to make fun of us contrarians who actually see things for what they are instead of drinking the white guilt kool aid, then so be it.

 

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