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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (2003)	1/18/2003 12:36:28 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Instead of being sensitive to this ... wire.ap.org ... The GOP in America got deeply hung up on Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky, unwittingly causing a different kind of carnage, one where a strange and purient media consciousness crept into the thinking and mindset of a whole generation of youngsters crossing into sensitive teen years. Ever stop to think what it had to have been like to have been a kid back then? What? No Rwanda? >>> U.S. foreign policy has reduced the world to a dichotomy: Countries that fall under "the interests of America" and those that don't. Iraq, with its strategic location in the Middle East and large oil deposits, is a priority. Rwanda isn't. So, in 1994, when U.S. government leaders knew about the possibility of a massacre in Rwanda that ultimately led to more than 500,000 deaths, they did nothing to stop it. (Neither did other foreign governments.) "The Americans were interested in saving money, the Belgians were interested in saving face and the French were interested in saving their ally, the genocidal government," said Alison Des Forges in 1999, author of a study sponsored by Human Rights Watch and the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues. "All of that took priority over saving lives."<<< Yes, priority is a funny thing--ain't it?