Originally posted by demonseedAnd had we pressued the UN and NATO, we probably would have found WMD in Iraq
I have explained.
Had we pressurised the UN and NATO and got them to admit that this was a genocide as the Rwandans begged us to do then we could have achieved something.
Originally posted by googlefudgeDrugs also have adverse effects on short-term memory.
ok that needs to go in the oxymoron section :-p .
My reading is fine. exactly what problems you have vary from person to person. In my case, short term memory problems. arithmetic, writing/spelling/grammar. all issues. supprisingly however i can get by fine without any of these.
If I remember correctly about what happened in Rwanda, regarding the current President (at that time) Clinton or some other top ranking political leader, there was a speach that said "What's going on in Rwanda are acts of genocide, but not genocide." Pushing the UN may have helped, or it may not have. Maybe even more people would have died then. But I think the UN sending people there temporarily to basically give time for other countries to extract their white citizens was pretty horrible.
Originally posted by Phlabibitprobably your teacher skipped a few pop quizzes himself.
I agree. I don't much care for it either.
I once had a kid in my History class, the teacher was also a coach... the teacher was a history teacher, but he was also about 6'3" and pretty big guy. He had a short temper of sorts, but I liked him.
Anyway, this kid (8th grade or so?) had a brown bag cover on his book and took some time to draw a big thi ...[text shortened]... m.
(Perhaps he wanted us to beat him up later, and that is why we got a pop quiz??)
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Originally posted by SilverstrikerThe most idiotic statement civilised men has yet to offer when trying to soften our own guilt for not trying to stop, if not contribute to the horrors of this world. "We couldn't do anything about it. But we can learn from the experience." Sure! We can learn. And the next time something horrible happens, we can learn from that too. That's the beauty of being civilised.
Not one individual can change what has happened, it has happened and we have to try and learn the lessons from these terrible events.
This is what we civilised people do. We sit by, watch the horrors on the news; read about it in the papers and then we learn. We've done it throughout history. We learn again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again...
...and again and again. And the next time it happens, we will learn yet again that we could do nothing but learn from it.
How about using our knowledge to try and prevent? How about looking at the underlying problems and see if there are ways to avoid bad things happening in the first place? And surely we've gathered enough information by now to offer a helping hand when people are being abused and even slaughtered? Right? Or are we actually this stupid? We keep learning but have no idea what to do with our knowledge other than to constantly improve our own living conditions at the cost of others. Then when poo happens elsewhere, we couldn't do anything but learn from it.
And when faeces happens to us we whine about it like crazy, as if we never saw it coming. And we're sooooo unfortunate in life.
We are such a refined species of the animal kingdom, aren't we? Pfffuit... 😞
Originally posted by GalaxyShieldI don't get your point. You're saying that pushing the UN might not have helped but it was horrible to extract foreign citizens? Why would that be horrible if you have doubts about supporting the intervention?
Pushing the UN may have helped, or it may not have. Maybe even more people would have died then. But I think the UN sending people there temporarily to basically give time for other countries to extract their white citizens was pretty horrible.
Originally posted by stockenHere, here.
The most idiotic statement civilised men has yet to offer when trying to soften our own guilt for not trying to stop, if not contribute to the horrors of this world. "We couldn't do anything about it. But we can learn from the experience." Sure! We can learn. And the next time something horrible happens, we can learn from that too. That's the beauty o ...[text shortened]... life.
We are such a refined species of the animal kingdom, aren't we? Pfffuit... 😞
Originally posted by stockenThen go buy a kalashnikov,fly to some african country and stop some genocide if you're able to, but also stop this 2bit moralism.
The most idiotic statement civilised men has yet to offer when trying to soften our own guilt for not trying to stop, if not contribute to the horrors of this world. "We couldn't do anything about it. But we can learn from the experience." Sure! We can learn. And the next time something horrible happens, we can learn from that too. That's the beauty o ...[text shortened]... life.
We are such a refined species of the animal kingdom, aren't we? Pfffuit... 😞
Like if we poor peons can do something about the UN decisions........
Originally posted by GalaxyShieldThe UN guy in charge on the ground had warned several times in the run-up to the genocide that something was being planned. He had called for more troops and for the UN operation to be allowed to seize weapons.
If I remember correctly about what happened in Rwanda, regarding the current President (at that time) Clinton or some other top ranking political leader, there was a speach that said "What's going on in Rwanda are acts of genocide, but not genocide." Pushing the UN may have helped, or it may not have. Maybe even more people would have died then. But I t ...[text shortened]... basically give time for other countries to extract their white citizens was pretty horrible.
The UN security council basically decided to do nothing.