Frontline: Ghosts of Rwanda

[Rudey]

Did it bother you when they said nobody knew what was going on??

Did it bother you that every single one of them didn't know except they refused to use the word genocide because the UN would legally be obligated to enter?

Did it bother you that it was America that somehow assumed responsibility for this? That bothered me when the Belgian contingent left. All of a sudden it became America's issue. America failed. Cut me a break. Not one country came to their aid.

It's not as if America failed, everyone failed. Every single country failed when they butchered those people. Clinton didn't even apologize. Nobody did.

The genocide is comparable to what Saddam did to his people but again nobody did anything. When Saddam was taken from power, they still wished the US had done nothing.

-Rudey
--The best line was how we had no friends, only interests.

Originally posted by FHwku
The PBS story marks the 10th anniversary of the 1994 Rwandan genocide of 800,000. Watching it, you hear the term "in retrospect," more than once, but i got the feeling that hindsight was still far from 20/20 for most of the people involved.

1. What are yall's thoughts on the current administration's foreign policy stands on the US's responsibilites to the world, particularly in the Middle East?

2. Can there be an acceptable blend of American interest-based involvement, isolation, and ethics in world situations?


There's always anti-war sentiment, but it seems like most conflicts, in my lifetime at least, have been riddled by a diatribe against any kind of action--anywhere. a sense of "what are we doing there/why are we fighting for them?" "this is just like Vietnam." i'm trying to express some late-night frustration and confusion, and i'm not sure if it's translating clearly onto the page.

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by Rudey
The best line was how we had no friends, only interests.

That irked me too. If that's true for America, then its true for all nations.

[RACooper]

Originally posted by Rudey
It's not as if America failed, everyone failed. Every single country failed when they butchered those people. Clinton didn't even apologize. Nobody did.

-Rudey
--The best line was how we had no friends, only interests.

Your wrong on that account... Canada did apologize, and specifically the commander (Delaire) of the UN contingent, who tried to warn the world, apologized... in fact he still is, as we speak, in Rwanda right now apologizing to the people he (and we) failed.

[Rudey]

Originally posted by RACooper
Your wrong on that account... Canada did apologize, and specifically the commander (Delaire) of the UN contingent, who tried to warn the world, apologized... in fact he still is, as we speak, in Rwanda right now apologizing to the people he (and we) failed.

Did the PM of Canada apologize?

-Rudey

[Tom Earp]

SAD IS SAD!

The Free World as We know it failed these people.

BUT, we as the Free World can only do so much! When is it time for Those People to do for them selves?

They Keep having The Same Power Hungry Types want to over come and they do only to place them in the the same power struggle of a New Despot. They are once again put in the same position of being poor!

[RACooper]

Originally posted by Rudey
Did the PM of Canada apologize?

-Rudey

Actually yes.... Chretien apologized at the last African conference that he attended as PM... and he apologized to "people" of Rwanda, Hutu and Tutsi. He said that Canada failed them, the UN failed them, and the World failed them.