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20 December 2001
By chance I have just finished reading a chilling account of the American government response to the massacres in Rwanda in 1994. Roughly speaking it went:
- We’re not sure what is going on
- We’ll ask them to stop
- There’s nothing to be done
- Even if we did something it wouldn’t work
- It is too late to do anything anyway
The worst of it is that America did its best to ensure nobody else did anything either (for fear that a successful mission by others would make it look bad).
Here’s an example:
A discussion paper on Rwanda, prepared by an official in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and dated May 1, testifies to the nature of official thinking. Regarding issues that might be brought up at the next interagency working group, it stated,
1. Genocide Investigation: Language that calls for an international investigation of human rights abuses and possible violations of the genocide convention. Be Careful. Legal at State was worried about this yesterdayGenocide finding could commit [the U.S. government] to actually “do something.” [Emphasis added.]
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