Reply #14: Rather than reread your article, I prefer to ask again whether the West [View All]

[pampango]

was right not to intervene in the Rwandan genocide. The argument could be made that there was no Western intervention because African life is cheap and there were not valuable natural resources in Rwanda. But do YOU believe that we have should tried to stop the killing, but callously chose not to, or were right to let the the genocide play out the way it did.

I would not put it past the West to "use humanitarian purposes as the cover" to get the oil. China wants oil and is willing to overlook humanitarian concerns in order to get it. Given our experience in Iraq, I hope we have figured out that a military invasion is not a very effective way to increase the flow of oil. Leaving dictators in place to pump oil and enrich themselves, while they impoverish their people, is a much more effective way to keep the oil flowing.