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To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (128647)	4/7/2004 2:03:23 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Thanks for the ideological diatribe.

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (128647)	4/7/2004 3:00:17 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 281500

While I generally agree with Belmont Club, the attack on Dallaire is totally wrong-headed. Dallaire's troops and resources were taken away from him. Only by bitterly complaining was he able to keep a bare minimum in Rwanda. They were totally insufficient to keep the peace. If the UN had not ordered the withdrawal of 90+% of Dallaire's forces, it is likely that massacres could have been in large part prevented. As it was, the remaining troops were able to do some good; they were not totally useless. His troops did in fact protect some civilians. However, there too few of them to do any good. Many were unarmed. If he had resigned, what good would it have done? The orders to leave had been issued. Dallaire is correct in blaming the UN and everyone else--including Clinton and Albright--who could have done something about the massacres because the effort required would have not been much in the big scheme of things. Rwanda is a very small country and the Hutus were poorly armed. The effort to prevent the massacres would have been a military and financial drop in the bucket for the UN, US, Belgium, France, or any first World country that wanted to do something. I do agree with Belmont, of course, that a lot of the blame has to fixed on the Hutu leadership. Nonetheless, the parties that could have prevented the massacres didn't do so. Dallaire did what he could.