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Originally posted by cosmoknight
No one wants a repeat of Somalia\Rwanda as intervention in a civil war rarely helps anyone.
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I fail to see how Rwanda fits into this picture. If anything, Rwanda is an example of the horror that can occur when the UN doesn't intervene. Prior to the massacre there, UN troops had discovered caches of guns and machetes and knew that a crisis was imminent. The troops, under the command of Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire, began preparing to sieze the weapons and defuse the situation, but were prevented from doing so by a gun shy UN still smarting from Somalia.
See the documentary "The Last Just Man" for a heartbreaking look at what happened in Rwanda and how it could have been prevented.