Fettuccini wrote:
Dont get me wrong, I do think this guy should be stopped, but I agree with dunsjohn on this one. And on top of that, look what happens every time we go into a country to help their people. We went into Vietman to help the South Vietnamese fight off the Chinese and Viet Kong. The world hated us for it. Panama. We killed a brutal dictator and everyone either hated us for it or didnt care. Afghanistan. We went in and got the Taliban out of power. We were hated for it. Iraq (the second time). We captured Hussein, leading to his trial and execution and are are made enormous progress towards giving the Iraqi people control of their own government again (contrary to what the media would have you believe, this is very much true). They love us for it. The world hates us for it. There are also huge numbers of people, although not as many, that hate us for interfering in Libya. Let's face it, with the exceptions of Bosnia and the Gulf War, every single time we do something good, we're suddenly the bad guys, even if the population of the country we go into supports us. Its getting to the point that why the hell should we even keep trying? We do more than any country in the world to stop people like this and what happens? We get labeled 'facists', or 'imperialists', neither of which could be further from the truth, but who cares, right? People want us to stop these people, but once we do and they find out that 'raising awareness' alone will do absolutely nothing and that the only way you CAN stop these people is with assassinations, war, and then often having to occupy said country in order to help restabilize it, they suddenly call us the bad guys. I'm sorry, but I think it might be time for us to start saying 'Sorry, maybe next time'.
I'm sorry if this sounds harsh. I dont say this because I dont think these people should be helped, I really do, but this is the truth.
It's more complex then that Fettucini saying "Sorry, maybe next time" to the population in America and that wants the government to do something would cause so much trouble and ontop of that making America look terrible in the process. It doesn't matter whether or not they love America or Hate America for doing something about Joseph Kony, the man has been doing this to children for 2 decades, someone has to stop him, and as decent human beings that can do something, they will try everything they can, it's the right thing to do.
dunsjohn wrote:
I don't mean to sound like a dick... but countries need to worry about their own problems first. People want America to do something. LMAO, America has a financial crisis and can't even afford anything right now. All countries have serious internal problems at this time, and can't afford to do anything about this situation with Kony. Best bet, focus all efforts internally to fix each country's problem, THEN go screw with Kony.
First off, don't say anything if you know you'll sound like a dick.
I'm sick of this "America has it's own problems!" BS excuse. This campaign will truly show people's true colors and what humanity they have left! People want America to do something, people in Uganda want America to do something, Thousands of Americans want the government to do something. The man has been capturing children for 20 years and making them sex slaves, soldiers, etc. and you want them to wait? You honestly think that America's economy crisis is more important then an entire country of children being slaughtered? America does have it's own problems and so does every other country in the world, but that is no excuse not to help another country in need. Besides you say focus all our efforts internally on fixing each countries problems? Countries will never be without problems, America will always have issues and problems till the day it crumbles including every other country in the world.
Before watching this video, from time to time I'd think about how horrible the world is, I want it to be a better place, stopping things like this should be countries main focus.