While you should approach most matters on the internet with a degree of skepticism, the Kony 2012 campaign seems to be legit.  Unfortunately, the internet these days has became infested with "trolls", individuals who have nothing better to do than to cause mischief online (surprisingly, their internet ego doesn't translate over well into the real world!).  These trolls are people who "disliked" the Youtube video and posted comments with false or poorly worded phrases intended to discourage the average person from supporting the cause, most of the time because they thought it would be funny.  The sad truth is that there are so many of these on the internet that they really gave this video a bad rap by overinflating certain facts to make the general public grow suspicious of this righteous movement.  
    I believe that this company truely has their eyes set on the right goal.  The LRA is one of many horrible orginizations that is threatening the prospect of peace in the future.  Kony (as well as the rest of the people in command) must be stopped because their army is ruining the lives of millions of Africans.  I think the campaign can bring down the LRA if it gets enough support, not only that, but it might give people the courage to start taking down other terrorist and evil orginizations that are threatening the balance of the world.  
    Unintended consequences are generally ones that were totally unrelated to the subject because no one ever thought about it.  This could potentially be another Iraq where we would end up having to send more troops and supplies to rebuild the communities that were destroyed by the war initialy.  In this case, we may have tens of thousands of orphans in need of homes now that they arn't being housed by the LRA. 
    The response video shows that most of the criticisms are in fact largely exaggerated if not completely made up.  Like I mentioned earlier, internet trolls were this videos biggest enemy and the sad thing is they don't realize how much trouble they actually caused this orginization just to get a stupid laugh.
    All in all, I think Invisible Children is a great company that has its priorities set straight and is really in it for the good of all mankind rather than to make their pockets a bit heavier. 

  

    I believe the United States' responsibility to the world includes not only financial aid, but by acting like a role model for other countries to follow.  Right now, I think the United States gives enough material support to other countries to be considered acceptable.  However, we are not being as good of a role model as we should be to other countries around the world.  Our practices in foreign relations are less than acceptable, for instance; in the Middle East where we have basically turned some countries into war torn wastelands to gain control of oil fields is not something we want other aspiring countries to attempt to do.  We must display a model for succeus that doesn't involve the degrading of other coutnries and forgein markets because that model if applied universally wouldn't work.  Not everyone can reap the benifits of taking from others because some will always end up with little or nothing.  To create a better tommarow, we need to learn to become self-sufficient and show other countries how to do the same so that everyone can come out on top.  
    Back to our fiscal responsibility.  We must contribute to those in need no douibt, but I think that we must also show how to be frugal with what we have (which currently I can guarentee we are not displaying that well).  I hesitate in saying the United States should give more money due to the fact of the extreme debt our government has accrued to the point where I don't believe we really have that much to give.  However, there is still time for change and we can as the Puritan leader, John Winthrope said "We must put ourselves upon a hill for the others to see".  So I believe our responsibility to the world should become that of a role model rather than that of a chariter.