Khabure said that her best sense of the situation is that the LRA's original objectives were long ago hijacked by the numerous outside groups who benefited from the region's instability and began supporting Kony's rebels.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

"Manifest destiny,and so forth. And I think most of the world probably feels it is in the same situation as Astrix and his village Gaullois in that we can identify with that sense of wanting to hold out and resist against the encroaching powers.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22