The problem with Africa is that, at some point, every side (except the people) has clearly, and definitively, wronged the other side. It is a continent of exacerbated ethnic, resource, social, health and historical issues with a good bit of stupid European imperial borders thrown in for good measure.
We did not "forget" Rwanda- charities, individuals got involved. We cannot hold the standard of the Holocaust to Africa, because we stopped the Holocaust as a side effect of destroying the Third Reich. We did not and do not intervene for human rights issues without some ulterior or ally motive- Libya, for example, is for Europe's oil. We won't take down Assad because our oil is not threatened, etc. We took down Hitler, and in the process halted the Holocaust.
Let us remember that, in the height of WWII, we turned back Holocaust refugees, most likely with prior knowledge of European atrocities, to the European camps. They too were forgotten, and the false standard of intervention is supported only by idealism and the half-assed crowing of the UN. The ICC is after-the-fact, and that is the way 'human rights' works.
The Holocaust, by and large, was stopped after-the-fact, just like Bosnia, Rwanda and every other atrocity of the 20th century. Expecting American or Western intervention without some unspoken ulterior motive for human rights alone is ridiculous.
We did not "forget" Rwanda- charities, individuals got involved. We cannot hold the standard of the Holocaust to Africa, because we stopped the Holocaust as a side effect of destroying the Third Reich. We did not and do not intervene for human rights issues without some ulterior or ally motive- Libya, for example, is for Europe's oil. We won't take down Assad because our oil is not threatened, etc. We took down Hitler, and in the process halted the Holocaust.
Let us remember that, in the height of WWII, we turned back Holocaust refugees, most likely with prior knowledge of European atrocities, to the European camps. They too were forgotten, and the false standard of intervention is supported only by idealism and the half-assed crowing of the UN. The ICC is after-the-fact, and that is the way 'human rights' works.
The Holocaust, by and large, was stopped after-the-fact, just like Bosnia, Rwanda and every other atrocity of the 20th century. Expecting American or Western intervention without some unspoken ulterior motive for human rights alone is ridiculous.