There you go again....
"Did I forget to post the full article again? D'OH!!"
ConservativeStLouisGuy
Posted on 04/17/2004 8:10:48 AM PDT by quidnunc
How about that Richard Clarke! Hard to beat that dramatic apology to the American people for the administration's failure to prevent 9/11: ''Your government failed you, those entrusted with protecting you failed you and I failed you.''
Thanks for that, big guy. But, if you want an example of a president doing nothing to prevent not thousands but the best part of a million deaths, how about the Rwandan genocide? Remember that? It was exactly a decade ago, and the media commemorations so far are, to say the least, low-key. The editors of the Economist wonder, ''How many people can name any of the perpetrators?'' I'd say it's more basic than that. How many could tell you whether it was the Hutu killing the Tutsi or the Tutsi killing the Hutu? Come on, take a guess, without looking it up.
If there's a point to the U.N., which some of us doubt, it should surely be for the likes of Rwanda. An irrelevant basket case state (even by African standards) will never be a legitimate national interest for any great power. To America, Britain, France, Russia and China, it makes no great difference who's running Rwanda, or even whether there is a Rwanda: If those Hutu and Tutsi mutually hacked each other into extinction, it's their problem. But the U.N. is supposed to represent a global will, a moral purpose beyond crude hard-power calculations. Instead, born in the wake of one genocide, it sat by and idly watched another unfold, so serenely complacent it couldn't even rouse itself to jam the state radio station, through which the ruling thugs urged their teenage hackers on in public service messages pointing out ''the graves are not yet full.'' So the killing continued, until some 800,000 were dead.
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Clarke left the Administration in January 2003 I believe. His frustration over Iraq started some time earlier. I was just wondering if there was any relationship between this Democratic law firm bringing a Peggy A. Clarke on board -- and Richard A. Clarke becoming a "whistleblower" intent on bringing down a Republican President.
I suspect there's a 98% chance nothing is amiss in this situation, but it would be a convenient way of "buying" someone without it looking too odd. I mean, Rand Beers tells Clarke, "Dick, don't worry about it. We can hook your sister up with a sweetheart deal at this law firm and your family will be set for life. All we want in return is for you to use your position to submarine the President."
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