or UN nations responsible is going too far. At the same time I hope it
doesn't happen again. And I do think more needs to be done to help with the
AIDS crisis in Africa...
-Patrick
-----Original Message-----
From: John Stanley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: April 7, 2004 8:50 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: Rwandan Genocides
>>Now tell me that it isn't hypocritical of the US to not go into Rwanda,
>>and to openly state that 800,000 people being murdered is of no
>.consequence to the US because Rwanda has no strategic value to the US
In the end it was Clintons decision to go or not to go. He chose not to. It
was certainly the wrong decision in my opinion, I seem to remember being
appalled at the news stories coming out. I think that in light of the
professed humanitarian goals of the United States it was a hypocritical
decision. In the same light I the US is not alone. What about the UN?
Rwanda's neighbors? Any carribean nation? The fact is did "anybody" help
them? Nobody cared enough to help, and now everyone looks like asses because
of it.
-----Original Message-----
From: Angel Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 10:22 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: Rwandan Genocides
Fair Enough.
So substitute "Criminally Negligent" for "Criminally responsible".
Now tell me that it isn't hypocritical of the US to not go into Rwanda,
and to openly state that 800,000 people being murdered is of no
consequence to the US because Rwanda has no strategic value to the US,
but charge into Iraq( unilaterally mind you) and state one of its goals
as 'freeing'/'saving' the Iraqi people.
If the issue was with saving people, then those 800,000 would not have
died. But the issue, quite clearly, is whether or not the location and
its stability is of strategic importance to the US.
I'm not even getting into whether this is right or wrong, but I can't
understand why so many sweep this simple fact of US Foreign Policy under
the table while describing the US's actions as almost altruistic when it
is most certainly not.
I also can't understand why any objective and impartial individual would
seek to defend such behavior.
-Gel
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug White
Not at all, perhaps criminally negligent but not responsible - the
perpetrator
is the one criminally responsible. By any logical measure.
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