Why Didn't Anyone Stop This Sooner? Part 1
My wife watched Schindler's List this evening, and at the end of it, she asked, "Why didn't America stop this sooner?"
But the sad thing is that it's the exception rather than the rule when any country steps in to stop atrocities. Hitler ran amok. Rwanda unchecked. Darfur remains an atrocity in progress. The NATO intervention in Kosovo was a rare exception.
Long before 9/11, I considered the oppression of the Taliban in Afghanistan an atrocity worthy of international intervention. The sadistic regimes of Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong-Il deserved termination long before the "axis of evil" speach. Thugs in Africa chop off the hands of children to protect their turf to control the diamond trade. How many people need to be tortured, starved, raped and maimed before a finger is lifted? But wouldn't it be nice if the "world community" just didn't have it's act together? It's much worse (to be continued).
But the sad thing is that it's the exception rather than the rule when any country steps in to stop atrocities. Hitler ran amok. Rwanda unchecked. Darfur remains an atrocity in progress. The NATO intervention in Kosovo was a rare exception.
Long before 9/11, I considered the oppression of the Taliban in Afghanistan an atrocity worthy of international intervention. The sadistic regimes of Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong-Il deserved termination long before the "axis of evil" speach. Thugs in Africa chop off the hands of children to protect their turf to control the diamond trade. How many people need to be tortured, starved, raped and maimed before a finger is lifted? But wouldn't it be nice if the "world community" just didn't have it's act together? It's much worse (to be continued).
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