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Originally Posted by Platapus
I might agree that "someone" needs to "do something" in Uganda. However, it has not been demonstrated that this someone needs to be (or should be) the US or that the something needs to be our military.
I guess the older I get the more cold-hearted I get, but I still wonder what is there in Uganda that is worth a single American life?
American lives are kinda important to me. As a former military member, I understand that American military may need to die to support US national agendas. But I would have a hard time looking a soldier in the eye and say "you need to die for Uganda".
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I think the problem isn't necessarily what the President is doing, but more his flagrant disregard for the law and the outright lying in his reasoning for the deployment of the troops. He's said that it's a national security issue (it's not) he's said he's carrying out Congressional mandates (he's not) and he's dropped the letter on us on a Friday like a document dump to avoid media scrutiny.
Going in there for humanitarian reasons is certainly noble, but it should be done within the law. What he's done here is unilaterally gone off on a military adventure in Africa without consulting any of the other branches of government.
The honest thing would have been to say "here's what I want to do, here's why" and make his case before the American people and Congress. We have checks and balances on power for a reason.