From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Tue Jan 21 2003 - 09:07:55 MST
Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> To remove the debate from it current "political" climate,
> how on earth could we have allowed the genocide of over
> a million people in Rwanda?
> [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/bush/rwandadeaths.htm]
...
As far as I could tell, there was no way the UN,
the US or anyone else could have stopped that
massacre. There was not a central leader on
any side urging them on, but rather a situation
where everyone wanted to kill. Having great
numbers of troops in their midst still would not
have stopped that madness. I see no point
in beating ourselves up over a nation that was
determined to commit suicide. There really is
no logical way to blame the west. The little
guy takes the blame. spike
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