Why aren't our troops over in the Congo? Women and babies are raped daily!?

Question

Women and babies as young as 2 are getting raped so severely that their bladders are often torn and brutalized to the point where they have to walk around with urine running down their legs for years until they can get help. And these are the fortunate rape victims. Most never get help and die or are
sold into sex slavery. Read the links below if you are not familiar with the rapes of these women in the Congo of Africa. This is unbelievable. If this is really taking place then how come the U.S Government have done nothing to help these women and babies?

http://www.msmagazine.com/spring2005/congo.asp

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/05/23/koinange.rape.war/index.html

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040308/goodwin

Answer 1

Could it be that they have no OIL!! Where have you been all these years. We're not as humanitarian as we claim, get over it.

Answer 2

Given the fact that a good portion of the population disapproved of the US toppling two evil regimes (Saddam, and the Taliban), what reason would there be to expect an approval of a third war to topple a third regime? And what resources are there in the Congo that would make it look interesting and worth while and exactly what threat does the Congo pose to the US?

There is more than one reason for going to war with Iraq and Afghanistan, only the anti-Americans and pacifists focus on the more selfish reasons like oil because they have political agendas of their own. I am no fool, I know Bush lied. So what, he is a politician and politician's lie regardless of their political party. There isn't a politician alive that has not lied or will not lie.

While what is happening in the Congo is tragic and wrong on so many levels. The reality is that the Congo poses no threat to the US and doesn't have any resources worth our time. Yes it would probably be the right thing to do to stop the rapes and such you have to look at it from a military perspective: Who is the enemy, where is the enemy, how do we go after the enemy? We are already fighting a war on two fronts do we have the resources to fight on a third? I don't think so.

Answer 3

Because the USA are not the World Police.

It's time you realized that the world is a hard brutal place, and its not possible for the USA to control it. There are much worse things taking place in Africa but you want to research it some more.

Thats why organizations like the U.N. were formed but as its a non-political organization dependent on the goodwill of other countries for donations and personnel it cannot function so quickly.

But sending American troops to every corner of the Globe will not help solve the worlds problems either, only contribute to more American deaths and a hugh debt to the American Tax-payer.

The USA has enough social problems of its own to solve first from medical to unemployed to the victims of hurricane Katrina.

Answer 4

America only has so much in the way of resources. So we put our troops, where we get the most bang for the buck.

While whats going on in the Congo is terrible, what are the other world governments doing?

Answer 5

If we deploy forces to the Congo then we hear the constant crying about interfering in the business of other nations.

We aren't the only nation in the world, can't others help also? How about France, or Canada?

The Congo has their own government and should help themselves first.

Answer 6

easily, secret, I anticipate that the way we even understand approximately those issues in Africa is from the folk in NGOs working there. have faith me that the question is So no longer "the place is the crimson go or Amnesty worldwide?"! they're There! yet they're so skinny on the floor that they might't supply up the atrocities or perhaps look after all the sufferers! the genuine question is why is not greater being achieved via the worldwide to supply up atrocities and genocide?

Answer 7

As horrible as it sounds, America has better things to do than to sacrifice lives and money to directly intervene in the countless bloody squabbles overseas.

If you intervene in Congo, you'll have to intervene in Sudan too. Then Burma, Thailand, Colombia... cripes, I could rattle on for ages. If you're going to be the policeman of the world, you can't afford to give preferential treatment. But that's fine - nobody wants the job.

Answer 8

What makes you think they haven't done anything in Africa? Take a look at Somalia (where lots of troop were lost to bring law and order) or for more recent times, try Liberia. Because of the military and political interference, that damn dictator Taylor was brought to trial. The very same brutality was present for women and children in these countries too. It is not just for the U.S. alone to help, joint efforts are required too, by those who can help.

Answer 9

Wow.....what a bunch of ridiculous answers. We're not over there because they're black? Ummmm......Somalia? We lost American troops in Somalia trying to feed starving children. Get a clue.

The very first answer is correct. We can't help everybody all the time. Otherwise, we'd be all over the globe trying to help the 2+ billion people living in abject poverty.

Why isn't the UN doing something?

Answer 10

Look brutality has been around since the beginning of human kind, the United States nor the UN or the EU is ever going to change that.

Answer 11

everyone already hates us, yet they still ask us for help anyway. I just dont understand it. They tell us to go home and leave them alone, yet the whole world expects us to put up money and troops. Ive been to iraq and have done my duty. its time the rest of the world kicks in and clean up their own yard. we have work to do here.