"Go in, get the job done - period - and get out"

From Eric Dondero:

Libertarian Republican presidential candidate Gary Johnson has expressed support conceptually for U.S. interventions overseas on humanitarian grouds in the past. But he's never been so explicit and direct.

From a recent interview conducted by longtime libertarian Republican and RLC member Rick Sincere, The Examiner:

Johnson pointed out that this action had been authorized by Congress in a law that had been signed by the President (referring to the Lord’s Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009).

He said that his understanding of the LRA is that it “is the worst terrorist group on the planet over the last few decades. They have been directly responsible for tens of thousands of deaths, mutilations, [and] rapes. They are incredibly bad actors who are not based in one country [but] they maraud over several countries in Africa.”

Johnson said that, as President, he would have acted immediately after the legislation had been passed. He would have sent a strike force that could have achieved its aims quickly – eliminating the Lord’s Resistance Army.

“It’s go in, get the job done – period -- and get out,” he said.

He went on to tell Sincere that if elected his cabinet would include military hawks, as well as non-interventionists:

“I’m talking to the most hawkish people that exist,” he said.

“I don’t necessarily agree [with them] that we need to increase spending but we seem to find common ground... that we could be spending our money more wisely.

Photo LRA leader Joseph Krony. credit - Afrik-news