One of the only interviews ever with Kony, if not the only one.
A lot has been made of Kony and his guerilla force in recent years. He claims he is fighting for Freedom, for Democracy, against an atrocious tyrant that has committed the atrocities he is blamed for. President Obama has ordered US Troops to Africa to help track him down, and kill or capture him. A Kony 2012 campaign has kicked off by an individual that was accused of taking "artistic license" with the truth, before he snapped and started ranting naked in public.
What is the truth? In Africa, there is seldom a choice between an atrocious force and a benevolent force. War is almost always between atrocious forces. Allegations of atrocity are used to whip opponents of that force into a frenzy to commit atrocities against it. It seems there are more civil wars in Africa, than there are stable nations there. War in Africa is so normal that it rarely gets news time in the US.
The biggest successes of American Foreign Policy in Africa have been Djibouti and Liberia, under the previous Administration. The Liberian success led to the Sierra Leone success, because it removed the local warlord, Charles Taylor, though it was the British Foreign Policy that was most applicable to increased stability in Sierra Leone, aside from the removal of one of the most atrocious current tyrant of Africa. The biggest failures in Africa have been Somalia under Clinton and Liberia, under Clinton and Bush Sr., with allegations that Carter was involved in the coup that set the situation in motion.
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