[piasa]

fyi

[Osage Orange]

From the piece:

"He remains angry, saying that if someone today began slaughtering gorillas in the mountains of northeastern Rwanda there would be more of an international outcry than if someone resumed the genocide. "

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So true..So sad, but true.

[McGavin999]

But Washington, still reeling from the Somalia fiasco, was loath to get involved again in Africa. Belgium and France both carried colonial baggage in the region.

They just can't get them to say the word. The word is CLINTON not WASHINGTON.

[Restorer]

What would have been necessary to stop this is a massive killing of the genocidal Hutus. This would have itself been called genocide, just as the measures necessary to prevent 9/11 would have been called racism.

See, if an atrocity doesn't take place because you do what is necessary to prevent it, then you never know what was really prevented and the pre-emptive action can be portrayed as unjustified.

[happygrl]

Thanks for posting this.

I will look for his book.