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2004-04-08 Africa: Subsaharan

STEYN - CLINTON, CLARKE AND RWANDA: TEN YEARS ON

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Posted by mojo 2004-04-08 15:27|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "But the UN is supposed to represent a global will, a moral purpose beyond crude hard-power calculations: instead, born in the wake of one genocide, it sat by and idly watched another unfold, so serenely complacent it couldnât even rouse itself to jam the state radio station, through which the ruling thugs urged their teenage hackers on in public service messages pointing out âthe graves are not yet fullâ. So the killing continued, until some 800,000 were dead."

If the League of natons had succeeded, which it didn't, There would have been no holocaust of 12 million Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Slaves; because, if the League of natios had succeeded, which it didn't, Hitler would have been pre-emptively deposed from power even before Deutschland had invaded and siezed the Saar in 1936, because removal of the Nazi regime from power would have been predicated on the surrender agreements Germany signed forbiding them from the production of WMDs, the old fashioned kind. And enfored with extreme consequenses following his violation of the surrender and subsequent (unenforced) resolutions passed by the ineffectual failure that is, and was, the "League of Nations.

Posted by Moveorg.off 2004-04-08 6:11:55 PM|| 2004-04-08 6:11:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 There's Clinton, living up to, and almost surpassing the wash-your-hands-of-it legacies of Wilson and FDR.

Posted by jonlemming 2004-04-08 6:19:22 PM|| 2004-04-08 6:19:22 PM|| Front Page Top

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