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Sun Mar-20-11 08:27 AM
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People complained about Clinton not getting involved in the Rwanda genocide soon enough |
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Not they are bashing Obama for getting involved in the Libyan crisis.
I swear some folks just can't be consistent.
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Sun Mar-20-11 08:28 AM
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1. R2P was created because of Rwanda, too. Would've helped Burma in 2007 if not for Russia and China. |
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Sun Mar-20-11 08:29 AM
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2. The difference is the "War on Terror" |
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People are tired of being manipulated by corrupt politicians.
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Sun Mar-20-11 08:31 AM
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3. they are probably different people |
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not the same people. The same people who were for the U.S. getting involved in Rwanda are probably the same people that support this bombing of Libya.
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Sun Mar-20-11 08:34 AM
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6. So you don't think the UN should've got involved in Rwanda? |
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Sun Mar-20-11 08:33 AM
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4. Anyone who thinks they are the same is not paying attention |
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Sun Mar-20-11 08:33 AM
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5. So you don't think the UN should've got involved in Rwanda? |
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Edited on Sun Mar-20-11 08:34 AM by joshcryer
edit: rephrase
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Sun Mar-20-11 08:48 AM
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10. They are not the same |
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Sun Mar-20-11 08:49 AM
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12. You didn't answer my question. Ignore Libya. Libya didn't happen. |
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All is flowery and peaceful in Libya. Should the UN have acted under R2P grounds in Rwanda?
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Sun Mar-20-11 08:52 AM
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16. Yes Rwanda. No Libya. |
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There, I've answered your question.
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Sun Mar-20-11 08:39 AM
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7. If I had the time, I'd do a search on it. |
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I bet there are a number of folks now bitching about Libya that also condemned Clinton for not acting in Rwanda. Some folks just like to complain.
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Sun Mar-20-11 08:44 AM
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8. Rwanda was 6 years before DU existed. :P |
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Sun Mar-20-11 08:50 AM
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13. But people have been condemning Clinton over his inaction for years afterwards |
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Sun Mar-20-11 09:14 AM
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24. The thing about Rwanda is that the UN was notified about it before it happened. |
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Kinda like how Benghazi notified the UN before it was about to be razed. I think that's their primary similarity.
Rwanda: "UH, SHIT IS ABOUT TO GET REAL!"
Libya (Benghazi): "ERM, OUR CITY IS ABOUT TO BE RAZED LIKE 3 OTHER CITIES WERE RAZED."
Rwanda we didn't act. We didn't give a shit.
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Sun Mar-20-11 08:47 AM
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9. One million (maybe more) killed and 500,000 women raped in Rwanda |
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How many have died in Libya? How many women have been raped? As soon as the numbers are close, you can say some folks just like to complain. :eyes:
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Sun Mar-20-11 08:51 AM
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15. Oh, so it's all about reaching a certain threshold of deaths. |
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What's the threshold again? 1 million? 500,000? 100,000?
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Sun Mar-20-11 08:54 AM
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17. So do you believe we are the world's policeman? |
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Where next? North Korea isn't looking good. Very evil dictator. Then there's Iran. He's evil and crazy too.
Anything to keep that military industrial complex going! Woohoo!
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Sun Mar-20-11 08:58 AM
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18. You didn't answer the question. How many deaths are allowed before intervention? |
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Why even have a UN force? Maybe we should just disband the whole UN peacekeeping effort.
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Sun Mar-20-11 09:10 AM
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22. LOL how is peacekeeping killing people? |
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I don't support war. Period. Peacekeeping is not war. It's not launching missiles. It's not sending in troops.
Yes we should have intervened in Rwanda. With the UN. But this is not even close to the same as Rwanda. But then, how much oil is in Rwanda? :)
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Sun Mar-20-11 09:14 AM
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25. "I don't support war. Period. Peacekeeping is not war" "Yes we should have intervened in Rwanda" |
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Thanks for proving my point about people being inconsistent.
BTW, Liyban action is approved by the UN.
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Sun Mar-20-11 09:19 AM
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27. Rwanda would've almost certainly required an armed conflict, too. |
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They had some kind of insane bloodlust that they had been planning to inact for a year or so. It would've been shooting people with knives, by and large.
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Sun Mar-20-11 09:24 AM
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29. Intervention in Rwanda wouldn't have been peacekeeping |
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It's not that hard to understand.
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Sun Mar-20-11 09:27 AM
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31. Did you mean "would have been peacekeeping"? |
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I'm sorry but it would've necessitated a lot of violence, no matter what way you look at it.
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Sun Mar-20-11 09:27 AM
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It's not hard to see your inconsistent argument. Rwanda good. Libya bad.
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Sun Mar-20-11 09:28 AM
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33. Rwanda genocide. Libya not. |
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Now please show me where that is inconsistent.
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Sun Mar-20-11 08:49 AM
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11. dont forget, Kosovo Was All About The Oil!! Or Something!!!11!! |
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America IS teh EVEL Leave Ghadaffiii ALoooone!!!
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Sun Mar-20-11 08:50 AM
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14. That's because one was a genocide and the other a rebellion. |
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There is nothing strategic as it concerns multinational corporate interests in Rwanda. Now who is consistent and who is not?
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Sun Mar-20-11 09:05 AM
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20. The Rwandan Civil War predated the genocide. |
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You could have called the Interahamwe the "rebels" in this situation (and if I recall correctly some people did). Your position is untenable.
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Sun Mar-20-11 09:23 AM
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28. Not completely. The Rwandan civil war involved Uganda arming Tutsi refugees |
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Edited on Sun Mar-20-11 09:24 AM by mmonk
that then invaded northern Rwanda. Then there was a ceasefire. Then the plane was shot down. The people slaughtered in what subsued later were not a military force. The UN was in place.
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Sun Mar-20-11 09:25 AM
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30. There was no way of knowing that it wasn't a rebellion except for the UN pleas. |
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Edited on Sun Mar-20-11 09:25 AM by joshcryer
Likewise there is no way of knowing if Benghazi was going to be razed by Gaddafi's forces for certain because those forces were obliterated last night because of the UN.
All indications were that there was fighting going on in Rwanda.
All indications were that there was a push on a city in Libya.
Both cases involved people asking the UN to intervene.
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Sun Mar-20-11 09:00 AM
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19. I was outraged when we did nothing in Rwanda. |
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Here's a clip from the movie that pretty much cuts to the bone of why we didn't. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKjprq67kYI
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Sun Mar-20-11 09:06 AM
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21. That covers the entire policy on Africa in general. |
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Sun Mar-20-11 09:12 AM
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23. Excuse me but this AINT GENOCIDE. Not yet anyway. |
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If you don't want to get fired upon by the Quadaffi's forces, then all you have to do is simply leave the rebel army. I have not heard that he is firing upon civilians at this stage. Rebels said goodbye to being a civilian when they took part in this civil war.
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Sun Mar-20-11 09:18 AM
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26. That is bullshit. The Rwandan genocide was easily interpreted as a rebellion. |
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If Gaddafi razed Benghazi as he threatened to do how many would have died? The French fighter jets stopped it. We'll never know. It's easy to say "you can save lives" after many have died. But if none die because you acted? You can always say "he wasn't going to kill anyone." It's a catch-22.
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Sun Mar-20-11 09:41 AM
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34. Mass killing of unarmed innocents, Rwanda was. Not to that yet in Libya. nt |
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