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I would do a write up for the 13th Valley but I haven't reread it in a few years. Excellent book about the life of a grunt in Vietnam
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3) You immediately contact any and all press you can find and whistleblow the poo poo out of everything, and tank your career in the process That's probably the best case scenario, but the end result was the same. After Mogadishu, American intervention in Africa was finished for at least a half century and no one else in 1994 had the capability or will to intervene, certainly not the UN
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Sep 22, 2016 17:02
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The people not caring thing was the main issue, really. I know I remember that time on the news, right in the wheelhouse of when my dad and I would watch Peter Jennings every night. The main poo poo was always the war in Bosnia back then. When I look at how bad the Bosnian War was, and how it was the benchmark of conflict in post WWII Europe, I can't help but contrast it with Syria today and I kinda have to laugh. Who knew you could turbocharge that style of conflict?
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Sep 22, 2016 17:31
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To be fair to the UN (I know, I know), the ramifications of the Bosnian War still influence current affairs today, and Rwanda is much more localized of a thing. Certainly there's ripples among the conflicts in Africa today, but you don't have Putin pointing at Rwanda like he does the Balkans.
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Sep 22, 2016 17:39
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P-Mack posted:Rwandan genocide led directly into the Congo wars that drew in half of Africa and left millions dead. .... and sadly it barely affected the rest of the world. The Balkans almost brought the US and Russia to the point of armed conflict then, and it has clouded Russia's relationship with NATO ever since. Far, far more influencing on a geopolitical scale and it's not even close.
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