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To: Verginius Rufus

There was a larger genocide in Rwanda in 1994 when Bill Clinton was President. He did nothing to stop it—he may have been the one outsider who could have stirred the international community to take action to stop the genocide, but he sat on his thumbs...but he did offer a perfunctory apology later. That did not stop him from being nominated and re-elected in 1996.


10 posted on 05/26/2020 7:14:53 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

In all fairness to Clinton, the DOD wanted no part of Rwanda.

One of their excuses, er, reasons, was that military vehicles didn’t have the right paint jobs for Rwanda.

One of the real problems is that Rwanda is a land-locked country, and I believe their were concerns about maintaining supply lines and rights of way.

That said, I don’t think Clinton seriously tried to rally, bribe, or fund any pan-African response, either.


19 posted on 05/26/2020 7:55:31 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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