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Originally posted by bilmore
The fact that anyone could not latch onto it with a degree of fervor is what's so dismaying to me. We're debating the efficiencies of stopping the Holocaust. That's the philosophy that kept us from Rwanda, to our eternal dishonor. To ignore such a need is, to me, antithetical to one's own humanity, and I cannot make myself believe that the majority, as you term them, doesn't share that basic value. Thus, to me, it has to be a wilfull decision to ignore the slaughter. And the only motive I can see is the political one.
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I haven't read the National Geographic article, and am willing to accept that there is lots in there I don't know. But before the war, I would have put Iraq in a league with Haiti, Rumania or China as a totalitarian regime that killed its own citizens to a disturbing degree, but not up there with Sudan, Cambodia or Rwanda as a country in which the central government was engaged in genocide against its people. Hussein's treatment of the Kurds might tend to put it in the latter category, but for a decade we'd been protecting the Kurds with the no-fly zone.
