After witnessing the USA "helping" the Afghan and Iraqi people...

[NNN0LHI]

...real close for a few years now I don't think Americas "help" would have done the people from Rwanda any good during that genocide.

After seeing how our Pentagon works up close for a while now "helping" people I fear we probably would have killed more Rwandan people than the guys with the machetes did.

We need to keep our soldiers and mercenaries at home.

Don

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Baloney.

1. We aren't trying to help the people of Afghanistan and Iraqi.

2. We helped the Albanians in the 90s. We could have helped the Rwandans.

[NNN0LHI]

2. Don't forget the million or so dead Vietnamese people we helped too n/t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. Right, but it was never about helping the Vietnamese, was it?

Not anymore than it's about helping the Iraqis.

[NNN0LHI]

5. Oh yes we were helping to bring them democracy

Just like we are doing in Afghanistan and Iraq.

I bet the Rwandans who are still alive are glad they didn't get any of that kind of democracy.

Don

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. Well that's the "big lie" isn't it?

We could have helped the Rwandans if we had actually wanted to. But the "big lie" during that fiasco was that "it's not really genocide."

[malaise]

3. Cafferty has a nice question today

How compatible are U.S. weapons for Israel and U.S. humanitarian aid for Lebanon?

[blonndee]

7. My response:

About as compatible as the bright yellow food rations and bright yellow cluster bombs we dropped from the sky in Afghanistan.

[malaise]

8. Quite brilliant n/t