US knew of and ignored Rwanda genocide?

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Looks like this story, which has been burbling on the underground for a while, might hit the big time:

Papers prove US knew of genocide in Rwanda

Will the US media pick it up?

The 800,000 deaths in only a few months is a staggering total. I don't believe the US should be the worlds police force, but you know what, we went to war in Kosovo because of approx. 2000 "ethnic cleansing" deaths there. (conveniently ignoring William Cohen's bogus claim of 100,000 missing). Seems like we missed the big picture.

Keith.
 
The sad fact is, that over the changing administrations, for whatever reasons, the U.S. will always pick and choose which "humanitarian" missions to go on. And some that aren't, will be labeled so when it is convenient. Remember pre-election Bush? "We are not nation builders."

Sometimes presidents change directions on the fly, and the ones who suffer don't live in the white house...
 
Our "nation building" is subordinate to our strategic needs. It's that simple.

It's kinda like "take a number for better survice" benevolence.
 
We always will choose where to pick our fights, that is not news.

Just curious why we went to war to stop "ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo, a relatively paltry 2000 deaths or so over many years, and did nothing in Rwanda where 800,000 got butchered in a few months.

The public explanation, that we didn't know what was to happen in Rwanda, is going down in flames.

Looks like our first black president let down his homies. For the record, with the information that is only now coming out, we should have intervened in Rwanda via the UN or otherwise. It defies logic to support action in Kosovo and not Rwanda.

Keith.
 
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The sad fact is, that over the changing administrations, for whatever reasons, the U.S. will always pick and choose which "humanitarian" missions to go on. And some that aren't, will be labeled so when it is convenient. Remember pre-election Bush? "We are not nation builders."
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News Flash, **** has frozen over and JohnnyO agrees with a Liberal.
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Remember too though, that pre-election Bush was also pre-9/11 Bush. I'd rather we weren't nation builders either, I'd prefer to get the nukes out and vaporize a few nations.
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It defies logic to support action in Kosovo and not Rwanda.
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We didn't want to get involved in Kosovo ....that was a "European" problem. But the gutless euros didn't do anything and we got to view it in living color. That would not flush with the US public. It was also a matter of an ethnic or religious conflict. The lines were clearly drawn.

Rwanda, on the otherhand, was (and probably still is) a hopeless civil war. It is pure chaos. It also doesn't make big news.
 
Most of you realize Clinton was not my favorite president. Still I would not rehash this old news. Anybody that didn't there was a problem in Rwanda must have been living in a spider hole. I am afraid there are more problems in the world than we should try to fix. The genocide is one more good example of people killing each other simply because they can identify some difference.

This thread is one more good reason to to ban the political garbage here.
 
I don't know why that Australian article exists about the White House knowing about Rwanda's genocide and covering it up. Ridiculous. It was all over the news in 94. Public knowledge. There are exhibits on it at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.

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Know what eventually stopped it? Like immediately? Ebola.
 
My thoughts are that we don’t care so much when blacks are killing blacks. But when white people (Serbs and Croats) start killing each other, we begin to feel guilty if we don’t do something.

Labman , board sponsors like to see a site with lots of hits. Do you think Blackstone, Myoilshop, etc care if we have a few political threads?
 
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