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Originally posted by Spankster I make no argument in the failure in the UN but people like urself make it seem like the US hands are clean of the issue when they werent. You make it sound like that the US State department were trying everything to organize military intervention when the records clearly show that the US showed no interest in resolving the impending doom despite plenty of NGO's providing information that violence was imminent(even more imminent then a nuclear strike from iraq). Even ur own former president in clinton has formerly and publicly apologized for the US failure to intervene. Why cant you accept that the US was part of this sad failure?

I accept that the US is part of the failure. However, like I've been saying from the start, the US's desire to avoid sending troops to Rwanda, or to ANY peacekeeping duties anywhere in the world is, in part, mitigated by the fact that such an action was almost politically impossible given the fiasco in Somalia. Simply because the US didn't want to committ troops shouldn't deter the rest of the world from committing troops as was the case. When Rwanda went to the shitter everybody expected the US to committ troops but no one else was willing to take the first step and be the primary provider. I'd like to think that the US learned from its mistakes in Rwanda by taking action in Kosovo where, once again, inaction was the rule of thumb by many. But yes, the US is, in part to blame ... I never denied that.

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