Ugandans greeted President Obama’s announcement last month to deploy 100 US military advisers to central Africa to assist in the manhunt of rebel leader Joseph Kony with mixed feelings. Immediately, social media outlets were abuzz with the fear that the United States was only interested in Uganda’s nascent oil sector. In addition, Obama’s announcement could not have come at a worse time in Uganda’s political landscape. The country has been rocked by corruption scandals in the oil sector, with parliament calling for the country’s ministers to resign while it investigated charges that they took bribes from a British oil company. The scandal also exposed the deepening rift within the ruling National Resistance Movement government, which has been in power for over 26 years, as well as the public’s dissatisfaction at the corruptionmarred ’liberation government.’’ Many people questioned why America was giving support now, when it could have intervened much earlier in the fight against the Lord’s Resistance Army, which is accused of widespread aatrocities. President Yoweri Museveni called a press conference in the wake of the announcement to dismiss claims that American troops would fight in the war, saying he would never allow foreign troops to fight a war for him.