Why did we fail in Darfur and Rwanda?
Most, if not all, humans agree that genocide is wrong. If any given person off the street had the chance to stop one, they probably would. So why didn't we stop them in Rwanda and Darfur?
I dont mean to pose this as a question about Bush or Clinton, or military intervention, or some narrow discussion of tactics and what we should have said and done on what date, with what equipment, etc. I'm more curious about why we as human beings have a political system that seems to allow things that are extremely heinous, things we all agree shouldn't happen, to happen.
800,000 dead in Rwanda, 1994. 400,000 dead in Darfur, 2003-07.
Why?
More importantly, knowing all the things we know, why is it inevitable that it will repeat? Why can't we as human beings stand up and say, ENOUGH? What I'm trying to say is, there are 6,000,000,000 people in the world who, if you asked them, would say NO to genocide, so why can't we translate their answer into rule?
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