[Political Junkie Too]

After reading Russert's questions re: going to war, I can't help but wonder how the national debate would have gone if the USA decided to go to Rawanda to stop the killing. There was so much hand-wringing over the killings because we didn't go; how would the debate have gone if we did decide to go based on the debate now taking place over going to Iraq?

-PJ

[Robson]

...I can't help but wonder how the national debate would have gone if the USA decided to go to Rawanda to stop the killing.

A very interesting question, PJT. I'd guess that, depending on how our involvement in Rwanda had gone, the American people would have either been far more inclined or for less inclined to go into Iraq with humanitarian goals. Thus, this wouldn't just affect the post-Iraq discussion, but would have made for a dramatically different pre-Iraq discussion.