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Article: On being involved with mankind. (intervention in Zaire and Rwanda)(On the Right)(Column)
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- National Review
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- December 23, 1996
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NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 22
The question was asked last week of someone who had once served as a critical advisor to an American President in all matters related to defense. The question was, What role should we play in the Zaire/Rwanda situation? And his answer was: "What we have there is two tribes that simply don't like each other." He thought this a sufficient answer. Two tribes in eastern Africa that don't like each other equals no particular responsibility that devolves on the United States of America.
And yet there is moral uneasiness. What is the infrastructure of moral concern?
1. "Every man's death diminishes me, for I am involved in mankind." ...