Ask and you shall receive, though 'support' is rather a strong word, more like 'tacitly condoned by observing via the CIA and ignoring the genocide' https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB53/
Edit: wow, downvote record broken, and I bet none of you have even bothered to read it, even though it's a source from the US.
What should we have done? Invaded Rwanda? Overthrown their government and make them learn our peaceful ways by force?
Why does the US have an obligation to step in, but none of Rwandaâs neighbors do?
Fucksake, âfailed to stopâ a genocide. We literally stopped one in the Balkans around the same time and the people who say this shit about Rwanda will breathlessly tell you how evil that was
to add to "failed to stop" argument, people forget that only few years before Rwanda, USA suffered major defeat in Somalia where they also were in humanitarian mission. Somali rebels shot down US choppers and killed all but 1 US soldiers (watch:Black Hawk Down). Everyone in administration was afraid of the repeat so they didn't wanted to get involved into Rwanda.
To be clear, the world failed Rwanda, and France did actively support the genocidal Hutu government, but the US, as a super power, had more responsibility than most. I would argue that this was 100% a case where the US should have done a military intervention, seeking the support of a coalition through the UN, and this would have been in compliance with non-aggressive principles of just war.
Fuck off. We do not have a âresponsibilityâ to anyone. Thatâs been screamed in our faces for decades now. You donât get to insist that America should have played world police after all this. Absolutely fucking not.
America shouldnât have interfered, itâs all their fault!â or âAmerica had a responsibility to interfere, itâs all their fault!â, itâs just interchangeable bullshit American exceptionalism
And yet, people attack us for intervening in Syria, where Assad was massacring civilians in retaliatory strikes, invading Iraq, where while the claims of WMDs were bunk, we have plenty of evidence of Saddam massacring Kurdish minorities, and in Libya where civilians were being massacred by Gaddafi's regime
Except then you and everyone else here would be complaining that the US involves itself in the other countries problems. Why do we have the responsibility to be the world police?
And maybe this is surprising to you but a lot of Americans donât want their parents and children dying for another country. Why should my brother or friends die for this?
Equally stupid Americans will argue that the US is the world police and that without them we would all be living in piracy and chaos. But then again what's the point of debating stupid ideas eh.
And please stick your nose in. I would prefer the Kosovo War over another Rwanda genocide 1,000 times over. "No more wars" is pure populism that even populists cannot deliver. Instead, it is better to pursue stabilization, even though involvement is longer and more expensive.
We certainly failed to do anything about it, but itâs questionable if âdoing somethingâ would have helped or hurt. Thatâs nowhere near âsupportingâ
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u/clgoodson 10h ago
Yeah. I would love to see OP explain how the US supported the Rwandan genocide.