Clarke and Rwanda: Ten Years On [Mark Steyn on Clarke's "apology" to the victims of 9/11]

Steyn Online ^ | April 8, 2004 | Mark Steyn

[NovemberCharlie]

An angry Steyn column, not in newspapers.

[NovemberCharlie]

Ping to the Steyn List, and to your list.

[cyborg]

Don't hold your breath for any apologies Mr. Steyn

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[JasonC]

Amazing revelation. Very damning. Don't expect much play...

[Huck]

What about Congressional reponsibility for any of this. Do they have nothing to do with national security?

[cripplecreek]

Ive been mad a liberals all day because of this kind of crap. I started my day with a liberal telling me that the Rwanda genocide never happened, it was all right wing propaganda meant to make the anointed one (Clinton)look bad.

Next we moved on to the UN oil for food scandal where i was informed that since only FOX was reporting on it, then it was clearly more false propaganda.

Keep in mind these are the same people who tell me daily that me and my right wing friends just can't face reality.

[solzhenitsyn]

Bravo! A magnificent column!

[visualops]

ping

[nuconvert]

Not in newspapers?


Rwandan lives don't matter. That's why hundreds of thousands were allowed to die and the news of the GENOCIDE was a blip on our TV screens.

[reformedliberal]

I understand totally.

I stopped talking to a friend last week over this. He began by telling me that *Bush is toast* over the Clarke testimony/Condi testimony. He then segued into Rwanda and how he felt so terrible. You see: he worked in the State Department then and he was in Rwanda a few months afterward. And then, he told me that I couldn't *use* this for *political ends*. No. THAT was just too much for such a sensitive intellectual like himself.

I countered him strongly and asked what Clarke and he, personally had done. I got silence in reply.

Since then, he wants to discuss other (nonpolitical) things. Me, I am at a familiar point. Much like I felt in the late 1960s/early 1970s: everything is political.

Only this time I am on the other side. Or maybe not. I haven't changed at all. It is the left that first presented itself as something good and later revealed itself as something monstrous. Today, I don't think they even have a mask. They have some rhetoric designed to disguise what they really are and anyone who calls them on the fact that words mean things is automatically the enemy.

They are correct about that. I am their enemy.

[hershey]

Well, I had a set-to with my Italian/American friend who thinks 9/11 happened because we keep sticking our noses into other people's business. She announced (when I said we intervened in Iraq to save them from a homicidal dictator who'd murdered hundreds of thousands of his own people, like Hitler), that Saddam was NOTHING like Hitler...who'd invaded other countries. I said what was Kuwait -- chopped liver? No answer.

As for Rwanda...she said that was another of our failures, but 'you can't do anything for those people. Like the Middle East.' We should just let 'those people' go to hell. She had no answer about 'those people' sitting on 90% of the world's oil supply. Evidently oil doesn't exist in her universe. As for Iraq and 9/11, 'Iraq had nothing to do with that. It's been proven.'

Asked about the 707 sitting in the Iraqi desert, used to train Al Qaeda, or that Saddam had aided and sheltered wounded bin Laden's henchman, no answer was forthcoming. When I suggested,'okay, what do we do now? We can't simply leave Iraq.' She said sarcastically, 'oh no we CAN'T leave Iraq.' There's no getting through to this woman. Although having become a US citizen (dual citizenship with Italy...she's married to an American), six years ago, she thinks of herself as Italian and always will. All those stereotypical cowardly, bumbling Italian soldiers in old WWII movies...it's genetic. Great food. Dumb people.

[prairiebreeze]

Liberalism is a mental disorder. Seriously.

Prairie

[prairiebreeze]

ping to Steyn article

[Mr. Silverback]

Bump!

[Enduring Freedom]

An impressive confessional.

You're all RIGHT by me!

[Enduring Freedom]

Too many Italians are Socialist/Communist sympathizers.

It is in the blood.

But this Berlusconi guy, he's got what it takes!

[NovemberCharlie]

Not in newspapers; his website only.

[nuconvert]

Shouldn't surprise me I guess.

[nuconvert]

And this is a friend?