Soros' ICG recommended that the US "deploy a team" to Uganda

 

In an extraordinary ... commitment,

 George Soros has agreed to manage through his hedge fund

Crisis Group’s new endowment fund,

and to personally guarantee against any loss of principal

up to an aggregate $50 million."

(April 2008)

 

 

RECOMMENDATIONS of the International Crisis Group (April 2010)

To the U.S. Government:

7.  Deploy a team to the theatre of operations to run an intelligence platform that centralises all operational information from the Ugandan and other armies, as well as the UN and civilian networks, and provides analysis to the Ugandans to better target military operations. 

-- Africa Report No. 157

 

 

WHY U.S. military in Uganda?

Soros fingerprints all over it:

 

After President Barack Obama announced earlier this week that he would be sending American troops into Uganda, WND uncovered billionaire activist George Soros' ties both to the political pressure behind the decision and to the African nation's fledgling oil industry.

Soros sits on the executive board of an influential "crisis management organization" that recently recommended the U.S. deploy a special advisory military team to Uganda to help with operations and run an intelligence platform, a recommendation Obama's action seems to fulfill.

The president emeritus of that organization, the International Crisis Group, is also the principal author of "Responsibility to Protect," the military doctrine used by Obama to justify the U.S.-led NATO campaign in Libya.

Soros' own Open Society Institute is one of only three nongovernmental funders of the Global Centre for Responsibility to Protect, a doctrine that has been cited many times by activists urging intervention in Uganda.

Authors and advisers of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine, including a center founded and led by Samantha Power, the National Security Council special adviser to Obama on human rights, also helped to found the International Criminal Court.

Several of the doctrine's main founders also sit on boards with Soros, who is a major proponent of the doctrine.

Soros also maintains close ties to oil interests in Uganda. His organizations have been leading efforts purportedly to facilitate more transparency in Uganda's oil industry, which is being tightly controlled by the country's leadership....

Ugh. You ever get the feeling that you've just stepped into a sewer?

 

The brave may also be interested in seeing Obama's "Study Directive on Mass Atrocities," issued in August, in which he "hereby directs" 

... the establishment of an interagency Atrocities Prevention Board within 120 days from the date of this Presidential Study Directive.  The primary purpose of the Atrocities Prevention Board shall be to coordinate a whole of government approach to preventing mass atrocities and genocide.  By institutionalizing the coordination of atrocity prevention, we can ensure:  (1) that our national security apparatus recognizes and is responsive to early indicators of potential atrocities; (2) that departments and agencies develop and implement comprehensive atrocity prevention and response strategies in a manner that allows "red flags" and dissent to be raised to decision makers; (3) that we increase the capacity and develop doctrine for our foreign service, armed services, development professionals, and other actors to engage in the full spectrum of smart prevention activities; and (4) that we are optimally positioned to work with our allies in order to ensure that the burdens of atrocity prevention and response are appropriately shared.

To this end, I direct the National Security Advisor to lead a focused interagency study to develop and recommend the membership, mandate, structure, operational protocols, authorities, and support necessary for the Atrocities Prevention Board to coordinate and develop atrocity prevention and response policy.... 

 

 

One word of warning: If you follow that last link to the profile of National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, be careful that you not choke when you come to this bit near the end:

Before joining the Obama administration, Donilon was a registered lobbyist from 1999 through 2005, and his sole client was Fannie Mae.

 

 

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

If the odious and obnoxious OWSers agree on anything, it's that rich people are the root of all evil. I wonder if they include George Soros -- who is one of the major backers of their "movement" -- in their gallery of malefactors. There aren't many people on the planet richer than he -- and there certainly aren't many responsible for more evil. I suspect that those OWSers who know who Soros is -- and that may be a minuscule number -- would happily give him a pass. After all, Soros is a man of the Left -- and everything good is on the Left. Right?