mai said:
Kosovo is tiny insiginficant country, Afghanistan is not so tiny, yet seemingly insiginficant country, Iraq, Libya, Syria etc. As for Yugoslavia, I wouldn't call it insiginficant by European standards (not in borders of modern Serbia though), especially if it would have grown (as there were plans) to the size of Balkan federation. |
How would it of grown?
Anyway, like i'm said, i'm sure there were some minor political reasons that helped push them over the hump when the genocide was happening. Along with other bigger issues. There is always some political advantage to be gained in any situation like that.
As for why the US didn't intervene in Rawanda. Blame Somalia.
In actuallity the US congress was ready to authorize military military action to Rwanda... they had a full bipartisian support and were waiting for Bill Clinton to pull the trigger and ask congress as Commander in Chief to give him permission to deploy.
Clinton never did pull the trigger though, because Rwanda happened after the pullout in Somalia.
Which was the huge costly military disaster nobody talks about.
Clinton was afraid to step in because he didn't really know anything about Rwanda and it's tribes and he was afraid it was going to be Somalia part 2.
Not doing so was actually listed by the Clinton Administration as one of it's greatest mistakes.
