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FLPanhandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 08:27 AM Original message |
People complained about Clinton not getting involved in the Rwanda genocide soon enough |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 08:28 AM Response to Original message |
1. R2P was created because of Rwanda, too. Would've helped Burma in 2007 if not for Russia and China. |
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noise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 08:29 AM Response to Original message |
2. The difference is the "War on Terror" |
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silver10 (492 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 08:31 AM Response to Original message |
3. they are probably different people |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 08:34 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. So you don't think the UN should've got involved in Rwanda? |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 08:33 AM Response to Original message |
4. Anyone who thinks they are the same is not paying attention |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 08:33 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. So you don't think the UN should've got involved in Rwanda? |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 08:48 AM Response to Reply #5 |
10. They are not the same |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 08:49 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. You didn't answer my question. Ignore Libya. Libya didn't happen. |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 08:52 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Yes Rwanda. No Libya. |
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FLPanhandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 08:39 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. If I had the time, I'd do a search on it. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 08:44 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Rwanda was 6 years before DU existed. :P |
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FLPanhandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 08:50 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. But people have been condemning Clinton over his inaction for years afterwards |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 09:14 AM Response to Reply #13 |
24. The thing about Rwanda is that the UN was notified about it before it happened. |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 08:47 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. One million (maybe more) killed and 500,000 women raped in Rwanda |
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FLPanhandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 08:51 AM Response to Reply #9 |
15. Oh, so it's all about reaching a certain threshold of deaths. |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 08:54 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. So do you believe we are the world's policeman? |
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FLPanhandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 08:58 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. You didn't answer the question. How many deaths are allowed before intervention? |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 09:10 AM Response to Reply #18 |
22. LOL how is peacekeeping killing people? |
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FLPanhandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 09:14 AM Response to Reply #22 |
25. "I don't support war. Period. Peacekeeping is not war" "Yes we should have intervened in Rwanda" |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 09:19 AM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Rwanda would've almost certainly required an armed conflict, too. |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 09:24 AM Response to Reply #25 |
29. Intervention in Rwanda wouldn't have been peacekeeping |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 09:27 AM Response to Reply #29 |
31. Did you mean "would have been peacekeeping"? |
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FLPanhandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 09:27 AM Response to Reply #29 |
32. But you support it. |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 09:28 AM Response to Reply #32 |
33. Rwanda genocide. Libya not. |
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meow mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 08:49 AM Response to Original message |
11. dont forget, Kosovo Was All About The Oil!! Or Something!!!11!! |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 08:50 AM Response to Original message |
14. That's because one was a genocide and the other a rebellion. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 09:05 AM Response to Reply #14 |
20. The Rwandan Civil War predated the genocide. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 09:23 AM Response to Reply #20 |
28. Not completely. The Rwandan civil war involved Uganda arming Tutsi refugees |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 09:25 AM Response to Reply #28 |
30. There was no way of knowing that it wasn't a rebellion except for the UN pleas. |
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alphafemale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 09:00 AM Response to Original message |
19. I was outraged when we did nothing in Rwanda. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 09:06 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. That covers the entire policy on Africa in general. |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 09:12 AM Response to Original message |
23. Excuse me but this AINT GENOCIDE. Not yet anyway. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 09:18 AM Response to Reply #23 |
26. That is bullshit. The Rwandan genocide was easily interpreted as a rebellion. |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-20-11 09:41 AM Response to Reply #26 |
34. Mass killing of unarmed innocents, Rwanda was. Not to that yet in Libya. nt |
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