orogenicman
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Your argument is asinine. We've been setting up theaters of operation since the Spanish American war. And we certainly did so in Somalia. The question was never about ability. If that's the best you got, we're done here.And yet the UN established a military presence, even if they didn't use it to prevent a genocide. If the incompetent UN could do it, we sure as hell could too.Take personal charge of it instead of pimping the job out to the feckless UN.What is it that you believe the U.S. could have done to prevent that genocide?
Really? And considering the fact that we had no military forces in the region, nor any logistics, no bases, or even temporary use of bases in the region, what is it, exactly, that you would have taken charge of?
The UN had been there for several years. Do you really think the UN would have allowed us to use their forces, their logistical train, or any bases they might have had there when they had no intention of doing anything about it themselves? If it was a failure, it was the UN's failure, not Clinton's.
Rwanda is not Somalia. And in Somalia we did so with a UN task force. We did not do it unilaterally.