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Originally posted by jaguar
Christ tw, do you have to post the cover of every Economist?
What happened in Rawanda was a classic case of mismanagement. People tried to ignore it and did things way too late.
If anyone is to blame it the Belgians and the racial class system they introduced.
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Well, there you go, Jag. I think we in the West have the tendency to charge into other countries, create horrendous societal messes (the Palestinian situation is just one obvious example of this, as well as the African situation cited originally in this thread), and then skedaddle on out without a backward glance. We may be able to get away with this for a while, but sooner or later birds come home to roost. Our children or our children's children will pay the price. 9/11 was just the first installment. Americans just don't seem to get the fact that we are not exactly beloved by other countries and that there's a good reason for this.
As for what other posters noted about the US being damned if it does and damned if it doesn't, our leaders could avoid this by cutting the hypocrisy when we do interfere with the internal workings of other nations. We don't do it for "their" good, we do it for ours. Does anyone really believe that we would give a rat's ass about whatever atrocities might be going on in the Middle East were it not for our insatiable demand for oil? Surely, the members of this board are not so naive!