LOL...I show you malignant tumors, and you counter with a wart.
Drug running, death squads, Iran Contra, disappeared clergy, Iraq war and torture...versus a missed opportunity in Rwanda.
It doesn't dismiss the error of inaction by the UN in Rwanda, but it pales in comparison to the deeds and words of the Bushies.
At least Albright has the guts to admit that Rwanda was a missed opportunity. Bushies never admit to any error. If they do they get fired...like Powell.
thehoya.com
Albright: U.S. Government 'Stingy'
Calls for Increased Humanitarianism
By Monique Smith
Special to The Hoya
Friday, March 18, 2005; Page A1
Humanitarian aid and intervention must be considered a top priority for the United States, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said during a speech in Gaston Hall on Wednesday.
Albright began her speech by discussing the necessity of U.S. foreign aid for the well-being of the international community and the United States itself.
National security assistance is “poison down the snake hole of poverty and desperation, terrorism and strife,” Albright said.
She explained how the concept of foreign aid lost much of its support during the Reagan administration and is still not overwhelmingly popular.
“The United States government is stingy” but has “spent more in Iraq in one year than it will spend in 50 of the poorest countries in the next two decades,” Albright said.
Albright presented international relief efforts as an opportunity for unity within the American political system. She referred to efforts that are made to address the AIDS epidemic.
Albright quoted former Republican U.S. Senator Jessie Helms as being “ashamed of not having done more” in relieving the AIDS epidemic as an example of an increasing sense of moral obligation in situations of grave crisis.
The humanitarian spectrum is more a circle than a straight line, as political groups differ but overlap and are united under an overarching sense of moral obligation, Albright said.
“There could be no better time to bring serious minded conservatives, liberals and moderates together,” she said.
Albright called on the American population to move beyond ideological battlegrounds to find common ground by helping people marginalized by their own societies, relieving crushing international debt, securing that globalization does not widen the gap between rich and poor and devising a “practical plan for preventing genocide and acts of mass murder.”
Albright also spoke on the genocide in Rwanda and drew comparisons to the current crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan.
“We vowed never to see a repeat of the violence in Rwanda, yet meanwhile something similar is happening in Sudan where more than four times as many people have been killed than in Rwanda,” she said.
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