Uganda, March 4 -- Fifty-two years ago, in 1972 Uganda's current President, Yoweri Museveni, who was then in exile in Tanzania, teamed up with his arch enemy, Apollo Milton Obote, also in exile. They attacked Uganda and were badly routed and scattered by the Uganda Army of the then President, Gen Idi Amin Dada.

Six years later, Museveni with his FRONASA group was again at it with Obote and his Kikosi Maalum together with other, often rival exiled groups, at the Moshi Conference in Tanzania plotting to overthrow Amin. They succeeded with the massive help of Tanzania's army; the Tanzania People's Defence Force (TPDF).

Museveni then joined the volatile Uganda National Liberation Front (UNLF) governments of Presidents Yusuf Kironde Lule and...