What was the Clintons administrations policy? How was it implemented through Madeline Albright?
Pretty much as soon as the ten Belgian blue helmets had been killed, the debate became: Should we beef up the U.N. force, or should we cut it back? The Clinton administration–and one should always remember that in the United Nations Security Council, the United States is essentially the 800-pound gorilla that sits where it wants and can bend others to its will. It’s the great power. The Clinton administration’s policy was, “Let’s withdraw altogether. Let’s get out of Rwanda. Leave it to its fate.” The United States ambassador to the United Nations at that time was then Madeline Albright. And it was she who was in the wretched position of having to represent this position to the Security Council, and who did so very effectively. Iqbal Riza [U.N.] said, “Certainly in the first few days, neither the people on the ground or we here knew that this was a planned genocide. We knew that fighting had resumed, and we all viewed it as a breakdown of the cease-fire.” How would you respond to that
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