While the “Kony 2012” fad has come and gone, perhaps
to see a revival closer to the date of the previously planned protest
movements, yet the whole phenomenon has provided a huge insight into the
prevailing ideals of modern society and additionally the extent to which self
delusion has spread across the world. More and more this idea of futility, of
inevitability and seeming impending doom is spread and taken aboard by the
people of not only the United Kingdom but the entire Western World. Indeed we
now find ourselves in a world where the fringes of society do not push for
radicalism and progress, but instead a type of personal suicide in which our
nation would shut itself of from the globe and seemingly wait out the rest of
her days as an obscure little island where people can come to die.
No this ideal does not find any backing in either
fact nor history and indeed its perpetration and spread is the result of years
of failure and inadequacy by our leading classes. Perhaps a key notion of idiocy we have seen
perpetrated is that, in unison with the “Kony” Movement, the United Kingdom
(and indeed the whole Western World) is for some reason incapable of
intervening quickly and effectively into an enviroment such as Uganda. It is
time for people to accept that Britain is a nation with the capacity to exert
untold military force upon any nation in the world, with little preparation.
Idiotic and seemingly uninformed spending cuts have
scaled back our capabilities. Yet despite the madness they have perpetrated; we
still hold an Air Force with a level of capability so large it could conquer
the entire continent of Africa, a Navy of capabilities perhaps only two nations
on Earth can match it and an Army of such efficiency and ability it is renowned
for victories across the Earth. Sure these branches suffer from huge
underfunding, indeed it would make sense for defence spending to be doubled and
fixed at a minimum of 5% of GDP. The aim should always be for the British
Military to be built around at least 6 Supercarriers and the largest Air Force
on the Continent should we wish for British security be ensured. Still two
hundred years of global hegemony have given us a “head start” which only now
are Eastern Nations, such as Russia and China, beginning to catch mainly a result
of embracing Western ideals.
There is no question of our ability at current to
seize any nation on the African Continent should the will of the British people
push said agenda. One needs only look at our intervention in Sierra Leone to
see that spoken clearly, indeed the pish posh of incoherent militias which dot
the surface of Africa do not deserve the title “Armies,” there are armed gangs
with greater capabilities then these “nations”. Thus the question is formulated why don’t we
use this capacity to push the interests of ourselves where we should to the
advantage of the entire African populace?
The existence of madmen such as Kony in the jungles
of Uganda is simply a manifestation of the failures of de-colonization. Africa’s
inability at self rule has been proven, their achievements have consisted
primarily of mass poverty, starvation, civil war and unprecedented corruption,
with a few President run oil wells filling the void. Yet out of some weird
twisted moral stand we do not act, there are many people in society incapable
of looking after themselves (such as someone with Alzheimer’s) and society has
no quarrel with forcibly moving them into an establishment where they can be adequately
cared for. Should this principle be applied to a nation though, whose failures
cost millions of lives, society is strangely quiet.
It is clear what the solution is, re-intervention...
When regions such as Rwanda and Darfur where subject to some of the worst cases
of ethnic cleansing since the Holocaust we must act. We cannot stand by ambivalently
blaming ourselves in the past while refusing to acknowledge the now. It is our
duty to act and bring these regions under the control of our military and
Governments until such a time as they show the capabilities for self governance
exhibited by nations such as the United Kingdom.
Kony has been turned into a figure to advocate the status
quo, in fact it is no surprise the ideals of the campaign involving him gained
such traction in the Western World. The idea that any problem can be fixed by “throwing
money at it” has become engrained into the subconscious of so many of us the
fact that direct physical action is required seems only foreign. If anything
this can be seen as the key weakening aspect of capitalism, it has attempted to
spread a message that money is worth more than firepower. Gaddafi found out
that was not the case with his life, let us hope the same does not become of
us.
Should we wish to remove stories from the news of
untold suffering across the world, should we wish to retain our position in the
world and should we wish to once again make the United Kingdom great it can
only be through aggressive action. We have no choice; regions such as Uganda
must be once again placed into more capable hands for both our sakes and
theirs. Failure is not an option, for should we, we are all dead...
