Little Consensus Within Obama Administration on How to Stop Fall of Aleppo to Assad
by The Washington Post
SWJ Blog Post | October 8, 2016 - 5:10pm
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Little Consensus Within Obama Administration on How to Stop Fall of Aleppo to Assad by Karen DeYoung, Washington Post
It may be no small irony that President Obama’s peripatetic secretary of state will travel next week to Rwanda, where up to a million people were killed in a three-month ethnic genocide in 1994, and has tentative plans to attend an international meeting on Syria, where civilian dead are fast approaching the halfway point of that number.
Bill Clinton, president at the time of the Rwandan massacre, has said that U.S. failure to intervene there is one of his biggest regrets. Just two years later, an estimated 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were slaughtered by Bosnian Serb forces in the town of Srebrenica while “the world’s great nations,” including the United States, “failed to respond adequately,” the United Nations later said.
As Obama constructs the final months of his legacy, both historical events loom large.
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