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Do you QPs think the scale and persistence of the atrocities factor into necessitating a response? Or is it purely public pressure?
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I alluded to this in a previous post. This is nothing new, even if you isolate Africa. In 2002, I took a job at a charter HS at the Phoenix Job Corps Center. Many of the Somalian "Lost Boys" were relocated here, in were in my classes. They wrote essays about what had happened to them which would ruin your whole week - and echoed, even amplified, the testimony of they young man in the "Kony 2012" video. Again, this is nothing new - or something isolated to that area with the LRA.
Expand the scope to the situation that drove us to put troops in Somalia (Black Hawk Down), Liberia under Doe, or even Syria today. Has Kony killed more, as quickly, as Assad? Look at Asia, and examine Cambodia under Pol Pot. Go back to the purges in China under Mao, or the Soviet Union under Stalin, or Hitler with the Jews, et al.
Few of these atrocities necessitated a response on our part. I'll repeat again what I said before. Why "here" and why "now"?