Cons in America don't leave their 5 square mile safe space.
You know a person could take a fair swipe at Bill for things he did drop the ball with like Rwanda. But they just peddle bullshit little conspiracies. Half of these worthless old guys need to exercise their 2nd amendment rights in their skulls, they would probably miss the brain.
"In documents released Monday as part of a report by the U.S. Holocaust Museum on preventing genocide, we now know that warnings about the potential for extensive ethnic violence in Rwanda were already being broadcast to Washington by U.S. diplomats at the very time that I was becoming increasingly concerned on the ground. In a report in Foreign Policy, Colum Lynch details the earliest cable warning of possible ethnic violence from the U.S. Embassy’s deputy chief of mission sent from Kigali in August 1992. In Leave None to Tell the Story, the HRW report that I helped to research and write under the direction of the late Alison Des Forges, we devoted an entire chapter to warnings about the potential for genocide in Rwanda between November 1993 and April 1994, trying to disprove the claim of many diplomats that they didn’t know what was happening in Rwanda. These new documents now show that the warnings went back even further, to the George H.W. Bush administration. We now know that Rwanda should have already been on the Clinton administration’s agenda when it took office in January 1993.
When President Bill Clinton flew to Rwanda in 1998 (in a trip in which he never left the airfield), he claimed that he simply didn’t know what was happening in Rwanda. We now have further evidence that Clinton’s claims were false. It is not that the U.S. government didn’t know what was happening in Rwanda. The truth is that we didn’t care.
Timothy Longman is director of the African Studies Center and associate professor of political science and international relations at Boston University.
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