Why is it that America, who of late has been obsessed with shooting it's democratic wad all over the place, has so little interest in Africa? They've got oil in Africa after all.

To Sergio Vieira de Mello

Alas she is married to Cass Sunstein, another smarty, with a name like that I think he'd be an excellent folk singer. So is she now getting back into the Obama team after that Hilary "monster" Clinton remark?

http://www.esquire.com/features/fun-couple-21st-century-1008-2

Global inaction in Rwanda is the shame of my entire generation. All the major powers in the world had troops and aircraft on the ground in Rwanda promptly after things went bad to evacuate their nationals. They then just as quickly flew them all out and never returned and declared it would be too difficult logistically to respond in time to stop the genocide. The UN went so far as to evacuate the majority of their peace keepers, leaving all of 400 men to be powerless witnesses to the massacre.

Even after the genocide had occurred the Belgian government started court martial proceedings against their highest ranking officer that had been stationed in Rwanda during the genocide to stop it because 10 Belgian soldiers had died under his command. The Belgian government was more upset about it's own 10 people being put in harms way than trying to stop the 800,000 Rwandans butchered in the genocide. Before blaming Belgium alone though, that fear of seeing dead troops was the same thing that kept ALL nations of the world from doing anything to stop the genocide. It is the shame of every last person on this planet that did not stand up and demand their country do something. My only excuse is that I was still in my teens, I just hope I know better now.

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