Nixon as liberal? Re: Bill Clinton Defines Terrorism

[Peter K.]

Justin:
>Don't start me on Carter's embrace of the Shah or cozying up to
Somoza or
>supporting UNITA or building the MX and the B1, or Clinton's
ill-considered
>globalization initiatives and his cynical wars.
>
>blacks, women, latinos and others unquestionably have more
>>rights and equality in our workplaces today than they did
twenty-five years
>>ago.

Or Clinton's toleration of genocide in Rwanda:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15183

In September 2001, Atlantic Monthy published the results of
Samantha Power's
three-year investigation into the Clinton administration's
response to the genocide in Rwanda.

"In an age of instant information, US officials have gone from
claiming that they "didn't know" to suggesting—as President
Clinton did in his 1998 Rwanda apology—that they "didn't fully
appreciate" the crime underway. This, too, is misleading. It is
true that the atrocities that were known remained abstract and
remote, rarely acquiring the status of knee-buckling knowledge
among ordinary Americans. Because the savagery of genocide so
defies our everyday experience, many of us failed to wrap our
minds around it. We gradually came to accept the depravity of the
Holocaust, but then slotted it in our consciousness as "history";
we resisted acknowledging that genocide was occurring in the
present."
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