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- urik88, on 04/07/2009, -0/+11Never should such a thing be allowed to happen again.
The worst part? This ***** keeps happening. - wpi97, on 04/07/2009, -0/+8@lady
"Somehow, the world seems to have decided that some lives are worth more than others."
There is really no "world" that is making decisions. There are individual countries, who naturally care more about their own citizens and their own interests, than about a country in Africa, which doesn't have any oil. The sad fact is that nobody really cared that Hitler was exterminating Jews and Gypsies, nobody really cared about the genocide in Rwanda, and nobody really cares about the genocide in Darfur happening today.
Some lives are always more important than others. The lives of your family members are more important to you than the lives of my family members. And the lives of Americans are more important to the US government than the lives of Rwandans.
I think it has less to do with race or religion and more to do with the fact that Rwanda has no strategic significance of any kind to the big and powerful countries, and with the fact that most people there can't find it on the map.
Do you really think anybody in the West would care about the Middle East if there was no oil there? Oil is the one thing that gives the whole region strategic importance. Otherwise nobody would even know that countries like Iraq or Iran existed. In fact, Iraq would probably not even exist at all, because it was set up by Britain specifically to put a large oil reserve under the control of a friendly government.
Yes, I am becoming cynical in my old age. - AfricaImports, on 04/07/2009, -0/+7It is amazing how much people have had to endure in other countries, and how little you really hear about it. My thoughts and prayers are definitely with these survivors, it's heartbreaking how this kind of stuff does keep happening, as you said urik88.
- beautifulady, on 04/07/2009, -2/+7The Rwandan tragedy happened in part because its victims weren't white Christians. Somehow, the world seems to have decided that some lives are worth more than others. All the big, powerful countries in the world could have stopped this genocide, but didn't.
And then there came 9/11, a tragedy of much smaller proportions than Rwanda, but in a majority white, Christian country. The consequences of that day are felt around the world and never seem to end. How many countries have been invaded, how many people have died?
Rwanda didn't have a "war on terror." They had a "war of terror." - beautifulady, on 04/07/2009, -1/+5@wpi97, so am I. And I guess that is what is so terrible.
We all know why the US does what it does. And this includes who it supports as allies as well as who is chooses for enemies. Everything is purely self-interest. If it looks as though the US will profit from sending help to another country, it will do it. It doesn't care about the country or its citizens, only about what benefits will come from the intervention. It just seems that the US chooses people who are "other", not white, not Christian, and not European, to bear the brunt of its desire for world hegemony.
A case in point is Afghanistan. Does anyone really believe that Obama is sending up to 500,000 troops there so that they can fight the Taliban? What possible benefit to the US would there be in that? The real benefit lies in the destruction of Afghanistan and its reincarnation as a region through which a very lucrative American-owned gas and oil pipeline will run, all the way to China. China will never become No. 1 superpower in the world if the US manages to control the rapidly dwindling fossil fuel supplies on the planet. If a few people die to accomplish this, what the hell, right? The guys in suits over in Washington will manage to convince the masses that they're "fighting terrorists." - inactive, on 04/08/2009, -1/+4is still happening as we type...Niger, Chad, Darfur, Cameroon Mozambique...get me goin...
- wpi97, on 04/08/2009, -0/+2There is truth in what you are saying, but I do believe that fighting the Taliban is still one of the main objectives. Leaving a power vacuum in Afghanistan after the Soviet withdrawal allowed the Taliban to take over and ultimately lead to 9/11 and the dangerous situation we are all in today. Making the same mistake again would not be wise. The Taliban is a danger to the entire region, to Pakistan and to the Central Asian countries, and it can become the source of other terrorist attacks on the scale of 9/11 or even worse.
- sarahlee, on 04/08/2009, -0/+2Thank you for sharing that.
- AfricaImports, on 04/08/2009, -0/+1What an excellent way to commemorate the day. I am touched by your story. Thank you for sharing.
- inactive, on 04/08/2009, -1/+2we marked this day with friends and sat around a table with 18 countries represented...we feasted and cooked together and took food all around the city to several homes, we later watched 2 hours of slides from our experiences there and will be showing the collection to a few High Schools here in Amsterdam ....I was in Rwanda also for 3 years and that war was a defining moment in my career...that's when i decided to use myself as a weapon and leave the guns behind. well actually it was earlier than this but i was obliged to carry and Rwanda changed all that. have never carried one since.
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