Uganda: Sign of Obama's Foreign Policy Vision?

[AmericaTheEnslaved]

why three dollar gas? more money for fat cats. look at diamonds.

[CrystalsandCandles]

Anyone who thinks Obama is a Liberal has not been paying attention to what he does but only listening to what he says

[Sevenfold120]

Yes we dont gain anything physically but we are the dominant hegemonic power in this world and it is our responsibility to protect the weak. We exist within the UN as well. We do have a responsibility to at least try to make the world better because making the world better does benefit us indirectly. A better prosperous stable Uganda or any African state can benefit us ECONOMICALLY.

[sushanalone]

The US wont bother to wipe its own arse unless there was some interests involved. nor would any other government.

[lasku0007]

Lol.....look at this asshole...still trying to sell that american exceptionalism bs...a noble country "that protects citizens of other countries when their governments will not or cannot protect them...derp derp"...

eat up this shit my fellow americans and let's pretend that it's true just like in hollywood movies.

[TzeentchsKnight]

It's a win - win for some people and huge loss for a lot people, CORPORATES bought politician, POLITICIAN can't directly extract money from military funding but it's LEGAL if they receive donations from OIL COMPANY & DEFENSE CONTRACTORS. US is competing with other NATO member which trying to put their own oil company that's why they need to go to Libya to protect EXXON and sacrifice Gaddafi. I believe the bad guys here is European Oil Company that want to kick Exxon out by creating chaos.

[MjXllcommando]

what the fuck, this bitch just keeps making straw man after straw man to attack this guy

"i dont think the iraq war was necessarily about oil"

"OH SO YOU THINK THE IRAQ WAR IS RIGHT? HUH? HUH?"

if you think the iraq war was about oil, provide some actual evidence. fucking morons. Iraq was about the neo conservative conception of military might originating from Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz in the early 90s, the reason we are still there? defense contractors

[BrotherWoody1]

We're not in the Middle East for oil because his father can't stand paying $3 a gallon?! And this guy has a paying job anywhere?! The Cato Institute has certainly had their share of morons over the years but this guy takes the grand prize. He doesn't even acknowledge the difference between our "defense" budget & our "military" budget, which has dismantled the empire & is economically ruining our country. Apparently, he also doesn't get that Cato's candidate of choice is Ron Paul. Thumbs down!

[pickles7640]

Man if my bro heard this he was smack the shit out of this guy. My bro served more than 6 years in Iraq and now is in Afghan. If he even says it was about the oil and making Bush Rich then I will take his word for it!

[Friedstuffsable]

Uganda is not even in the top 115, so when any of you get the urge to shout "UGANDA IS AN OIL WAR" Don't do it. Refrain, & maintain some degree of integrity. As for this douche saying Libya & Iraq wasn't about oil, well... He is a tight ass neoconservative businessman. The CATO institute is fuck buddies with Koch industries... NEED I SAY MORE!

[NIKKElsix]

*** US SOLDiERS: MiSSiNG IN ACTiON ***

They've been replaced instead by FOREiGN MERCENARy CONTRACTORS who have no allegiance to flag or country, only to the $60,000/month they R being offered by the US Government 2 fight on their behalf.

If Americans were fighting their own wars, they'd B DRAFTED.

@ least then they'd have a job*

[aaronpolitical]

OK, how about "he killed his own people AND they started to revolt of their own volition"? Does that work for you?

[polkarde]

So the US had a UN mandate to go to Iraq, and went there for purely philosophical reasons?...has this guy been living under a rock?...Jeeze...he needs to wake up and smell the coffee.

[halfzombiehalfrobot]

Welcome to the new "Mercenary" economy. You people want jobs, here they are.

[MadMaxGamer]

I`m tired of all of it...

[IdidnotFartedIswear]

By what the dude said NATO should bomb US now

[Quemical83]

The funny thing is Obama won a nobel peace prize, and he's about to involve us in more wars than George W Bush. "Change!" Umm...I don't think so.

[Zooni2]

When you wage any war you gain enemies. The CIA calls it blow back. I had a friend who joined the French Foreign legion. He used to drive in Somalia with his brigade drop off food and get rocked on the way out. Why. Because he was interfering in their business. Why did AL Qaeda attack the US after the US aided them in fighting the Russians. Blow Back.

[PlanetEarthAwakens01]

lol Alyona getting called a conspiracy theorists, welcome to the club baby!

[dalecs47]

Before we start another war for profit we need to change the rules: Since usually only the children of working class Americans go and die in wars we need to tax the rich 91% on income and 91% on inheritance. All wars must be “Pay-as-you-go”. All the debt related to past wars must also be paid by the tax on the rich. It’s only fair. The rich in American stand to lose much more from an attack on American then working class people, we’ve lost almost everything already!

[rhinnawi95]

Give Obama a break. He just wants to visit his family next door in Kenya, and "helping" Uganda gives him a great opportunity to do so!

Back to reality: How about focusing on going green and helping out Americans? I'm sick of these post-Hoover administration foreign policies.

[badaboomrock]

this guy is shill Alyona why do you have him on your show. these wars are to keep countries under central bank control and from selling their oil for gold or to china.

[wanker89]

This is for Africom. We are seeing a new scramble for Africa. First the Americans want to out Chins and probably screw the EU. Screw Obama and I hope he loses the next election to a horse.

[capucchan8]

Obama = Bush, fuck him and his supporters, and I thought we were talking about days and not weeks?

and why now? clearly Obama has decided to go for Africa's resources

[n3bulous]

Alyona sure does make some strange decisions on her choice of guests.

She brings on neo-con guests to try to find common ground with them, except that common ground is tenuous and awkward at best.

Strange bedfellows.

[mesmokumpeacepipe]

Democrats, the new pro war party

[TheElusive]

What a MORON! Iraq WAS a War for oil, idiot! To KEEP that oil IN the ground so that we KEEP $4 a gallon gas!!! You mind telling me how oil companies are going to make profits off of $1 a gallon gas compared to $4 dollar a gallon gas?!!

Wake up, idiot!

[keithbu]

@TheElusive yes i know, it was all to drive it up from 87 cents in 1996 to like 4 bucks by 2008

[DoctrinaBytes]

@TheElusive not to mention the cost fo the wars actually brings gas to about 16 dollars a gallon in real terms.

[aaronpolitical]

@TheElusive Yeah I was thinking, as he said his first bit, where the fuck was THIS guy and his "Institute" when we went after Iraq???

[restlesspride666]

I hate that hidden smile he has as he talks about how its not about oil. In his mind he's (yeah, hahaha! IT is but I don't have to admit it stupid bitch!)

[vh8282]

War in Libya cost U.S tax players 2 million a day--- sacrificing the poor at home for pure humanitarian grounds to take part in a civil war. 

[IdidnotFartedIswear]

@vh8282 the one in afghanistan and the one in irak is costing us 2 billions a day or so I heard short ago