John Mica: “as history records this past month, unfortunately it will recall another sad chapter in President Clinton's foreign…”

“as history records this past month, unfortunately it will recall another sad chapter in President Clinton's foreign policy. I am not talking about Bosnia, Haiti, North Korea, or China, I am speaking about Rwanda. This time the United States failed to act to avert a genocide of our time. This administration not only ignored the wholesale slaughter in Rwanda, it delayed action on creating an international force and allowed the killing to continue. Instead of leadership to stop the massacre we provided delay. Instead of demanding United Nations action--we offered an arms embargo after hundreds of thousands had been hacked to death by machetes, knives and spears. When we say never again to a holocaust--we once again speak as hypocrites. As we watch the rotting human corpses on our color TV screens we see before our eyes another failure in foreign policy and a sad chapter in the history of mankind. Unfortunately whatever we do now is too little too late.”