re: #196 Gus 802

Anyway, I think some people get carried away with a fantasy that the USA can be neutral country like Switzerland and get away with it. I say that because look at how many in the world expected the USA to act unilaterally in Darfur. Which of course they arrived at that conclusion after the fact since if we did act unilaterally in Darfur it would have led to worldwide comdenation even if it could have prevented the genocide that took place there.

People thought at the time, and even more so in hindsight, that we had the ability to pretty easily prevent what happened in Rwanda… and I don’t think anybody would have complained if we had. Of course, if we had prevented it, there’d be no way to absolutely prove what had been prevented, and it would be easy to accuse us of exaggerating what would have happened, but I’m not convinced the accusations would have gotten a lot of traction.

Of all the things I’m angry at Bush/Cheney for, our loss of credibility has to rank near the top.