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Originally Posted by NCB
Political correctness is playing a huge role in the Sudan genocide, (though not so much the Darfur conflict). The Sudan crisis is yet another example of the Clinton Admin and the UN being morally bankrupt and without leadership. Like Rwanada, the Sudan crisis was far worse than anyhting that was happening in Kosovo. However, for the US to act in Sudan would have meant us going to bat for the Sudanese Christians who were being murdered and enslaved by the Sudanese Muslims. In Kosovo, it was the Christian "aggressors" fighting the Albanian and Kosovo Muslims. It's much easier for liberals (Clinton Admin) to go against a white Christian aggressor than it is black Muslim murderers.
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Your explanation misses the obvious: Clinton hasn't been in office in over 4 years.
But I'm not interested in another anti-UN thread from a bunch of conservatives, anyway.
So - the question is: why has there been no discussion as to the cause of the atrocities in Rwanda? There are two main factors (and I wonder how long it will take to turn this aspect of the discussion into a
U.S. is better than everyone else discussion).
1- Western colonization. One Western government controlled Rwanda, placing the minority Tutsis in power and then left Rwanda and placed the majority Hutus in power. While that Western government was there, they let the Tusis dominate the Hutus, after they left the Hutus massacred the Tutsis with weapons provided by, you guessed it, another Western government. Which brings us to the 2nd main factor:
2- Internation arm sales. This is the issue I've never been able to wrap my head around. The West sells arms to dozens and dozens of non-Western countries and what happens? The arms get used. And then we express shock (delayed by a decade in the case of Rwanda) that people are dying. Or even worse, the arms are used against us when we go in to "fix" the situation we created. Why the hell are international arms sales legal? It's entirely absurd.
You can bicker over who should have done what to stop the massacre - but then you sound exactly like the Western radio broadcast in the movie: bickering over the definition of genocide.