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Originally posted by AceOfBase
I don't know how true this is but I heard the reason they didn't go into Rwanda is because of what happened in Somalia in 1993.
It was supposedly decided after the Blackhawk event, that the military would no longer be used for that type of operation.
Originally posted by keholmes
This was a tragedy and it didn�t have all that much to do with a lack of money in the region it has to do with a fundamental shift with how we view each other, here is an example. The local paper had a picture front page with a caterpillar pushing bodies into a mass grave; later in the week they had a picture of a trophy room, with all sorts of stuffed animals. The paper received over 100 phone calls for the trophy room and less than 10 for the bodies picture demanding that they stop running such graphic material.
Originally posted by Gryffen
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Keholmes....u basically said that people are more interested in the death of animals and downed spacecraft than horrors of what we failed to stop, We are the guilty ones...we had the power to stop it or at least intervene...and u know what stopped it...politics...the same damn f**king thing that stops all major descisions.
SO....as interesting as this battle for land and riches is in the middle east...why dont u guys open ur eyes and see that there is more out there than todays news...we have sins to pay for...and one day there gonna come back and bite us a good one!!
Originally posted by Gryffen
�����������....we had the power to stop it or at least intervene...and u know what stopped it...politics...the same damn f**king thing that stops all major descisions������.
Originally posted by Gryffen
All politicians do is sit on there comfy chairs and make decisions that are completely useless in practical use!!
I mean...all these political guys are connected to each country by contracts and agreements...the main one i believe is something like..oh wait..hmm..lets see...LIFE!!
They have the power to send us out into war and boss us about..give us orders to stand ground when attrocities like Rawanda and such others are happening.
Politicians are only out for one thing....self interests and the power to make desicions...they dont care who dies..they dont care who or what they push out there way to get at it. They have no idea what mess they make for others cause they live in a little place of fairyland.
Politics need a swift kick up the 6 and woken upto reality.
This is another one to watch...because just like Rwanda, we will all sit in our comfy sofas, go 'tsk tsk' and do nothing.
Or should we?
My letter is going to Ottawa Monday.