02-06-2010, 02:49 PM
Looks like the good old U S of A have a great recent track record in Africa as well Burrito brain.
The U.S. military made its first direct intervention in Africa in 1992 amid Somalia's civil war as part of a UN peacekeeping mission. Washington's stated aim was ending a famine--but U.S. forces killed an estimated 10,000 until resistance forced the U.S. to withdraw in 1993.
During the genocide in Rwanda the following year, President Bill Clinton didn't lift a finger to stop one million murders in two months carried out by an ethnically based Hutu government against the minority Tutsis. In the aftermath of that bloodletting, a new Tutsi-led government took power in Rwanda. The new Rwandan government soon invaded eastern Congo--backed Kabila's rebel army--to establish a buffer between the Hutu refugees and Rwanda proper.
The U.S. military made its first direct intervention in Africa in 1992 amid Somalia's civil war as part of a UN peacekeeping mission. Washington's stated aim was ending a famine--but U.S. forces killed an estimated 10,000 until resistance forced the U.S. to withdraw in 1993.
During the genocide in Rwanda the following year, President Bill Clinton didn't lift a finger to stop one million murders in two months carried out by an ethnically based Hutu government against the minority Tutsis. In the aftermath of that bloodletting, a new Tutsi-led government took power in Rwanda. The new Rwandan government soon invaded eastern Congo--backed Kabila's rebel army--to establish a buffer between the Hutu refugees and Rwanda proper.
We need to punish the French, ignore the Germans and forgive the Russians - Condoleezza Rice.