What were they thinking?

By: Aram Mood: infuriated Date: 03/05/2008 17:29:00 Music: None

I just finished watching Ghosts of Rawanda in my Psych class. I was in total shock by the end of the movie.

Did we as a nation honestly NOT know what was going on over there? Is the UN so inept that they felt that tightening ROEs and ordering their 'soldiers' not to engage in force would make the problem disappear?

Were we as a nation so 'afraid of another Somolia' that we felt comfortable turning a blind eye to over a half million senseless deaths?

I know that the US isn't the world police, but to blatantly ignore and dance around terming it a "genocide"?

Bill Clinton pretended oblivion and people want to put him back in office? Madeline Albright 'wanted to do something'?

When a Senagalese UN officer and an American Missionary are some of the few that stood up against the evil that was being perpetrated, what does that say for the world as a whole?

People who stand by in time of need and do nothing, what goes through their minds? Are there none that see a need and try to fill it?

Are firemen, policemen and soldiers the only ones that are expected to help? Are civilians not expected to shoulder responsibility?

...(Disclaimer, sorry this has been eating at me since last Wednesday.)