Home | FAQ | Server | Presentations | Mailing Lists/Archives | Member Tools | Links | Sponsors | ContactHome | FAQ | Server | Presentations | Mailing Lists/Archives | Member Tools | Links | Sponsors | ContactBAHAHAH! You're going to try and blame Bush for Somalia? Give me a break! It was Clinton's "we don't want to look like we have too much of a presence there" policy that screwed it up. Yes, Bosnia was a good thing, but I imagine if Bush went and tried to solve other problems of genocide, Democrats would find a way to complain about it. By the way, why was Clinton so ready to come to the rescue in Bosnia, but he turned his back on Rwanda? Probably because a stable Europe is more financially beneficial to the U.S. Sounds like something an "evil Republican" might do... > On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 11:03:47 -0500, Norris, Matthew Henry (UMC-Student) <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote: > Heh, the only thing Clinton did "good" was welfare reform. Somalia, Rwanda, etc. were comedy, in a sad kind of way. The 1993 budget act was monumental, in that it (following up on Bush's 1990 tax increase) set the stage for financial markets to realize that the feds were serious about shaving the structural part of the deficit. About Somalia...don't make me laugh! Who sent our troops to Somalia in the first place, I ask you? Answer: G. H. W. Bush, in one of his final actions as president. The fact that nobody did anything about Rwanda is indeed a huge tragedy, but we share responsibility for that inaction with the rest of the free world, and notably our European allies. Moreover, you omit the fact that it was Clinton who finally managed to drag NATO into doing something useful against the murderous Serbian regime in Yugoslavia when they threatened more genocide in Kosovo. That case was very revealing, in that the goal was so clear, the approach was direct, the outcome was pretty massively positive (Milosovic is on trial for his war crimes) and the cost to the US while not trivial (we're still in Kosovo as peace keepers) was pretty clearly bounded. And we had all of our allies with us. Really, there is an awful lot you have to explain away here to conclude that Clinton never did anything "good". jking _______________________________________________ discussion mailing list EMAIL:PROTECTED http://mlug.missouri.edu/mailman/listinfo/discussion
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