joker8baller Wrote:-The LRA is only 250 soldiers strong at this point.
-The LRA hasn't been in Uganda since 2006.
-Ugandan army and Sudan People’s Liberation Army are riddled with accusations of rape and looting.

The LRA has never been a big group.
They probably operate mostly in eastern Congo.
The militaries of that whole region have a long history of atrocities.

It's wrong of the campaign to only focus on the LRA, it's a regional problem of failed states and rebel groups.
(It could also be a conscious choice. Nuance rarely inspires people. They want black and white stories that are not too complicated)

Sometimes media campaigns can be useful. The number one goal of a media campaign as such (at least it should be) is creating awareness and pressure on the own government. Pressure on the government of Uganda/Congo/... is useless, they couldn't care less. But it seems the campaign is running behind on the present situation.

joker8baller Wrote:-The group is in favor of direct military intervention, and their money supports the Ugandan government’s army and various other military forces.


Military intervention may or may not be the right idea, but people supporting KONY 2012 probably don’t realize they’re supporting the Ugandan military who are themselves raping and looting away. Educate yourselves a little bit before supporting a particular nonprofit.

Military intervention coming from the US, as in "boots on the ground", would be a bad idea.

The US has little interests there.
It's a huge non-urban area. They wouldn't last long there with conventional warfare.
It's not a matter of stabilizing, you would have to change the whole tribal culture there.

Recipe for disaster, only special operations are a possibiltiy. (which the US has already conducted there, in the form of 'training')