Hmmm, again. (Via Drudge) Senator Barack Obama today said that preventing genocide isn't a good enough reason for the U.S. to say in Iraq: "Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday the United States cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq isn't a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces there.
"Well, look, if that's the criteria by which we are making decisions on the deployment of U.S. forces, then by that argument you would have 300,000 troops in the Congo right now—where millions have been slaughtered as a consequence of ethnic strife—which we haven't done," Obama said in an interview with The Associated Press. "
Er, well, but Senator, folks on your side of the aisle did in fact in the past say that preventing genocide was a good reason for us to go into Bosnia; some said it was a reason to go into Rwanda; others say it's a good reason to go into Darfur. What do you say to those folks? Hope someone asks him...
