[VOA]

Of course, it's never the fault of the people who are actually doing the killing.

You are correct in pointing that -- at the same time you should catch the PBS FrontLine
special on the Rwanda genocide that aired this past week (some stations rebroadcast).

In addition to Kofi Annan, Bill Clinton, and Madeleine Albright as enablers of
the killers...there was Richard Clarke (who refused to be interviewed).

Among other interesting things about the show, in some cases one or two UNARMED
UN guards saved buildings-full of Tutsis by simply informing bands of unarmed Hutus
that they couldn't come in and kill the people under their watch.

Not that I'm for endless "policeman of the world" work, but a couple thousand UN
(=US, Canadian, French, German, etc.) troops probably would have saved countless thousands.

[Enterprise]

"one or two UNARMED UN guards saved buildings-full of Tutsis by simply informing bands of unarmed Hutus that they couldn't come in and kill the people under their watch."

That almost sounds like a Monty Python scenario.

"I'm sorry, but you simply can't come in and start killing people on our watch. It's not in our contract. Now go away."