Humanitarian efforts are expected of any ethical developed country, and there is an unfortunate mindset that accompanies this notion- the idea that doing something is always better than doing nothing. My research focuses on the charity Invisible Children and their work in Uganda and neighboring states. I discuss the misconceptions the charity has caused in the United States regarding what types of intervention are effective and appropriate, and the more dangerous implications of supporting the current Ugandan government. Uganda is a semi-authoritarian state and the Lord’s Resistance Army was formed in response to an oppressive government. The LRA is a horrific expression of Acholi opinion and it enjoys virtually no public support. But Invisible Children portrays the conflict as a sudden disaster, when it was in fact a long and murky political process. The LRA is primarily a movement- and that movement’s collapse into violence might have been more predictable had the United States and governments in Central Africa not been denying its right to exist. Invisible Children depicted Joseph Kony as a bizarre madman with no political agenda. As a result of this, the media thrives on the gory images it sells, the War On Terror expands to a new continent, and aid pours in to support Uganda’s military campaign. Joseph Kony, the leader of the LRA, has spent many years as the first name on the International Criminal Court’s Most Wanted list. Jason Russell, the entrepreneur of Invisible Children, took it upon himself to convince the American citizens that Kony should in fact be detained. This reductive argument strips historical and political qualities away from a multi-decade long war, pitting the Ugandan government and the United States against the “primitive” LRA. It is dichotomizing, inaccurate, and a means of ensuring that Uganda will continue to be hyper militarized.