[rj45mis]

Interesting post. I certainly didn't know much of the Rwanda killing fields.

[jocon307]

"I certainly didn't know much of the Rwanda killing fields."

A gruesome and dreadful thing. And probably the single greatest argument against gun control the world will ever see. All the dead were machete-hacked to death, with all the gore and horror that implies. What a way to go.

[Calvin Locke]

Frontline did a 2 hour piece a couple of weeks ago.

The Belgians were hacked to pieces precisely because of a hoped for "Mogadishu" effect.

Belgium allegedly got the US to get the UN to pull out to save Belgium's face in not appearing to unilaterally pull out.

Clinton & Co. learned the wrong lesson from Mogadishu. We had 18 KIA, without the proper equipment and support,
and the Somali warlords lost a minimum of 800, if not twice that number.

[cwb]

Interestingly, there were alot of "international events" that the American people didn't know about under Clinton, because our media didn't want to fill his plate. Just as he turned away from the genocide in Rawanda...and waged a war in the Balkans, he also ignored the atrocities in East Timor and Indonesia.

While I don't know (historically) a lot about the unrest in East Timor, there seems to be some hypocrisy in the way Clinton sided with the Muslim secessionist in Kosovo, while he not only ignored the Christian secessionist in East Timor, he allowed an even greater genocide to take place as Muslims fanatics slaughtered Christians by the thousands. Even worse, his close, personal relationship with one of Indonesia's leading citizens (Riady), guaranteed US support for the Indonesian government which was carrying out the atrocities.

For those ignorant people who like to blame America...and our support of Israel as an excuse for Muslim discontent, one only has to look around the world and see how Muslims are disconetent living next to anyone who is not Muslim. The very fact that we have not only ignored much of their aggression...but have also sided with them in many instances (Balkans, Kuwait, Indonesia, ect.) just shows how Islam does not want to live in peace with its neighbors. We placated and appeased these people throughtout the 1990s, and we still suffered our greatest humiliation at their hands on 9/11. We did offer them the Olive branch...and they broke it.