re: #147 Obdicut

Rwanda is still not a free country, by any means.

Let’s recap, because I don’t follow you:

1. Buck cited Rwanda, out of all of the countries of the world, as one where he would support invasion.

2. You questioned whether there was Conservative support of an invasion of Rwanda, “given that they just voted to allow them into the Commonwealth”.

3. I pointed out that Buck was probably referring to a 2004 invasion, not a 2011 invasion.

4. You then write that Rwanda is still not a free country.

I’m trying to figure out how your point #4 fits into the discussion.

I took it for granted that Buck cited a Rwanda invasion because he felt that there was something singular about Rwanda that would justify intervention, and I’m coming up with the massacre of 800,000+ people in a span of weeks, an event that occurred in 1994. I’m therefore concluding that Buck intended a 1994 invasion of Rwanda to stop that atrocity.

You seem to disagree. Can you please clarify why you would think that Buck would be more likely to be referring to an invasion 17 years after a genocide, because Rwanda “is still not a free country”, than an invasion to stop a genocide as it was occurring?

If that’s not what you are saying, then can you please clarify what you are saying?