LM, Blind Ideology and Historical Revisionism in the Face of Genocide

[LeoCasey at aol.com]

If the sign of a truly blind ideological approach to the world is the ability 
onto it regardless of falsifying information, than LM's continuing, obscene 
denial of the complete moral and political abdication of the American and 
European governments in the face of the Hutu Power genocide has certainly 
proven itself to be a full member of that class. Holocaust revisionists, 
stand aside. 


> US INTERVENTION IN RWANDA EXPOSED
> 
> Documents published this week by the US National Security Archives Freedom 
> of Information Project are purported to show that the United States blocked 
> United Nations intervention in Rwanda in 1994, allowing the government to 
> commit genocide against the minority Tutsi population 
> http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB53/press.html). The case
> argued by the FOIP Director William Ferroggiaro and by Samantha Power in
> an article in the Atlantic Monthly based on the same documents, is that it 
> was the refusal of the United States to intervene that caused the slaughter 
> ("Bystanders to Genocide: Why the United States Let the Rwandan Tragedy 
> Happen", September 2001).
> 
> What the critics of the policy fail to register is that the US did 
> intervene, decisively, through its proxy, the exile Tutsi army raised by 
> US-trained General Paul Kagame, 'the mastermind of RPF policy' (Defense 
> Intelligence Report 9 May 1994, p2). The policy is stated clearly in the 
> State Department's Rwanda Discussion Document of 1 May 1994: 'sanction the 
> ongoing aid to the RPF'.
> 

Leo Casey
United Federation of Teachers
260 Park Avenue South
New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)

Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never has, and it never will.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who 
want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and 
lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
-- Frederick Douglass --

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