The skill sets of this era are intellectual. They’re not tactical, they’re not doctrinal, they’re not process. They’re based on anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and on trying to understand the nuances that are in play -- and try not to simply witness, as we had to, to fall back, because we couldn’t use force -- but they’re built on the ability to proactively function in ambiguity.

When Dallaire speaks in front of an enormous crowd at an event to mark the anniversary, he sadly admits to the assembled Rwandans that the superpowers simply had no interest in them. While tens of thousands of troops were dispatched to white European Yugoslavia, virtually none were sent to Rwanda. The small country offered no strategic interest, no oil, nothing to buy or sell—all it had was black Africans and, as he acknowledges hearing at the U.N., “perhaps too many of those anyway.”
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So the real question is: is the Western world prepared to spill blood for advancing human rights in far-off lands that mean nothing, except for one small fact: they are exactly the same as us?