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Originally posted by PhiPsiRuss
...Getting back to Rwanda, for those who also saw the Frontline special, how did you feel about American inaction as you learned what happened?
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Anger and frustration towards the world's innability to react...the US government dancing around the legal implications of using the word "genocide"...the fact that people were slaughtered in a church...the fact that the RED Cross is faster and more effective than the lumbering UN...the entire thing stinks.
there were however three people that i think were pretty amazing: the UN officer who saved countless lives; the only American who stayed; and the Red Cross doctor.
I hope that both the UN and the US gov't extract valuable lessons on how to react. the bodies they desecrated in Mogadishu, Somalia, and then in Fallujah, Iraq, deserve retribution and more attention than the crappy campaigning for the lesser of two...[rabble rabble rabble]