Since the commencement of the US invasion of northern Uganda last month, very little news has come out of the region, beyond some lobbyists expressing hopes that it is just the next step in years of escalation in the region.
Now the Associated Press has given us our first insight into how the war plan is going. Unsurprisingly its going in the same as US wars always go, no progress and an announcement that a great new idea is going to produce a quick victory. That new idea is the radio.
See the US troops have no real idea where Joseph Kony is, but they bet that if some villagers saw him they’d probably call the troops. The reason that hasn’t happened is that they don’t have phones. There but for the want of phones, the war would be won by now.
So the US aid group is installing $18,000 radios in every village around the area, a slow and surprisingly expensive process. Officials say the radio towers, which usually amount to the radio being tied to a tree, will allow the villages to provide the US military with information about the LRA’s movements.
that's just plain absurd, no one is that stupid.
this is just a means of starting an insurgency.
And sell plenty of new radios, Paul. I´m sure that the radio manufacturer would agree that every tiny village in Africa should have a new radio so that they can call "America". Absurd is the correct word.
Ah,yes,the corporate enrichment scheme continues.But we don't make radios anymore do we?It maybe SK radios,part of the new trade deal given US by our deaf criminals in Congress.
Any chance Chertoff is involved? He managed to pimp his porno scanners to airports for his firm so I'm sure he and his fellow rat bastards must have their peckers in some other political pie hole.
Then if the radios are broken by bandits, either joe's group or freelance, more troops can be moved in to protect 'american' interests.
We did warn you people about US and EU new policies in Africa before, during and after Libyan war. This is about stealing African peoples wealth and side stepping African Unity starting from north Africa, creating the neo religious Mafiosi hand in hand with US and EU – NATO militarism regimes.., there is no democracy in that and it will not produce any hope for a democratic social economic or a political system.
Democracy in opposite to religious is an open ended philosophy or idea.., but that doesn’t mean that you can through all kind of dirt at its arena hoping for a democratic result.., Fascism or neo fascism is one of the matters that capitalism trying to legitimize by giving them an opportunity to be part of their social politics supporting the neo fascism from within (Capitalism) .., what US and EU militarism regimes are trying to do is to close the democracy idea and replacing it with religious and therby implementing its closed ended idea, a religious dictatorial system with result in poverty and rule of brutal tyranny like in Saudis and UAE or a police stat like in EU and US will be created.., and that’s where Paul Wolfowitz and people like Carl Rove ideas are presented in starting a police state.
US military victory in Uganda? When? Where? How? Aren't they jumping the gun a bit on that one. They haven't been able to achieve victory anywhere else since WWII why now and in Uganda of all places? I'm willing to bet that a handful of Ugandas with riffles can give the US one hell of an ass kicking. And now watch 'em get those radios and, somehow, turn them around and use them against the Yankee invaders.
The enemy will watch and see who uses these radio's and murder everyone in the village.