 Journalist Nicholas D. Kristof thanked Invisible Children for making the film and addressed its criticism , stating that rather than being " white man 's burden " , when " a warlord continues to kill and torture across a swath of Congo and Central African Republic ... it 's a human burden . " He also said that complexity had long been " a leading excuse for inaction during atrocities " and that Kony remains a threat in Uganda 's neighbour countries , so the simplicity of the film " has left the American public more informed " than it would be otherwise , and that if he " were a Congolese villager " , he would " welcome these uncertain efforts over the sneering scorn of do @-@ nothing armchair cynics . " Foreign correspondent Roger Cohen called it " simplifying grossly and distorting adeptly to make a valid point : that no effort should be spared to arrest Kony . " British film critic Peter Bradshaw wrote that Kony 2012 , despite its flaws , " lands an almighty punch . This is a principled campaign ad , and a very , very effective one . " Former war correspondent Gotham Chopra said that he understands " the instinctive backlash ( really it ’ s irritation ) " towards the film and the campaign , but " there is enormous value in the fact that millions of people are talking today about genocide in Africa that were mostly unaware of it yesterday . " Jane Bussmann , author of a 2009 book about Kony and the President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni , compared the campaign favorably to the " culture of charity @-@ as @-@ industry " as " at least Kony2012 linked suffering to perpetrators , and urged the young American audience it 's aimed at to contact a politician . " Matthew Green , author of a 2008 book about Kony and the LRA conflict , The Wizard of the Nile , wrote that IC had " achieved more with their 30 @-@ minute video than battalions of diplomats , NGO workers and journalists have since the conflict began 26 years ago . " 
