Posted on 06/19/2009 6:15:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Foreign policy is no longer restricted to "a few elites," British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said in an interview with The Guardian.
"You cannot have Rwanda again because information would come out far more quickly about what is actually going on and the public opinion would grow to the point where action would need to be taken," he said.
The interview with the embattled prime minister, which covered a number of areas, is to be published this weekend.
Brown talked of how Twitter and other ways of communicating electronically have been used in Iran this week, subverting the government's efforts to keep demonstrators from getting publicity. He said the Internet era is "more tumultuous" than previous ones as a result.
"Foreign policy can no longer be the province of a few elites," he said.
Brown is an idiot. What was happening in Rwanda was well known. The Toon and the UN decided to do nothing about it.
>> “You cannot have Rwanda again because information would come out far more quickly about what is actually going on and the public opinion would grow to the point where action would need to be taken,” he said.
Unless, of course, it happens to be the Jews being threatened or exterminated. Somehow I think Brown and the rest of the Left could find a way to ignore that.
What an ass clown. Fortunately his days are numbered, and good riddance.
That's what led to our mistaken effort to try to feed the mobs in Somalia.
Brown spews his customary drivel. All the information necessary did come out. There was no will in the international community (meaningless phrase, isn’t it) to stop a million or more people from being chopped to death with machetes.
Things didn’t work out that way for Darfur. It seems as long as Brown has his mouth open he figures he might as well say something stupid.
The internet has done so much to prevent the Darfur crisis.
Just concurring with pretty much everyone else so far that Brown is an imbecile.
Wow, what version of altered reality does he live in. If he really believes this he is naive beyond belief. (Oh, and so far the internet hasn’t done much to slow down Zero.)
Just thinking back, didn’t the Internet exist during the whole Rwanda thing?
Sees like Alan Keyes was screaming bloody murder about Rawanda back then and even warning about it before it began.
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