> > I agree that the US should have intervened. Do you agree, if > > it would have done so, it would have been dissed by a great > > deal of the world for imperealism? Should we have been > > willing to violate international law to save half a million > > human lives?
> What did the U.S. have to gain by intervening in Rwanda?
Diddly squat, but that doesn't mean dedicated critics of the US couldn't come up with something. Presumably, Rwanda had something useful enough for past European imperialists to colonize the country, and the critics could use that.
> If we were successful in preventing a genocide and that was > our clear motive in interveneing, the success of our mission > would speak for itself. If, instead of asking for another > $25 B for Iraq, we put that kind of money and effort towards > ending the AIDS epidemic, who could doubt our motive was pure?
Critics would claim the politicians who proposed it were using African AIDS victims as an excuse for taking money from taxpayers, and giving it to their buddies in the pharmaceutical companies.
> Only those who have dishonest motives themselves.
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