Rwanda experienced the most intensive slaughter in this blood-filled century we are about to leave. Corridors of Power: Rwanda s1e3: That Was a Local Thing, Clinton
They were hearing the information but they weren’t acting on it. ibid. old boy
The Kosovar Muslims’ struggle for independence from Serbia ... ‘We were going to intervene in Kosovo.’ Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? s1e4: Kosovo: In the Name of Our Future
If Milosevik does not halt his ethnic cleansing of Kosovo the western powers are willing to use their military might to stop him. ibid.
The bombing of Belgrade was a bit of a shock for some of us at the State Department. ibid.
We did do the right thing. ibid. Albright
Why didn’t we do more sooner about Bosnia? Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? s1e5: Darfur: Carrots for a War Criminal, author
In Sudan, a vast land, the third largest in Africa, two decades of civil war had brought countless atrocities, and left two million dead. The country was rich in oil but that lay in the south. ibid.
Darfur is a region in western Sudan roughly the size of Spain. The people of Darfur are Muslims, but they are also black Africans. ibid.
Now the Christians in south Sudan were going to get their own state, the Darfuris escalated their own. ibid.
Colin Powell’s prescient warning, ‘If you break it, you own it.’ ibid.
America broke Iraq, and was clearly unprepared for what would happen next. ibid.
More than 2 million Dafuris left their homes … They never had enough to eat; disease was rampant … Women, children and the elderly suffered most. ibid.
Young Arabs began to remake their world … Libyans had taken to the streets challenging their long-time dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? s1e6: Libya: If You Break It, You Own It
Gaddafi had been a villain for the West for a quarter of a century. ibid.
‘We need to make sure they [Gaddafi’s forces] don’t get to Benghazi.’ ibid. US dude
‘You unleash a chain of events that make it very difficult to control.’ ibid.
‘Oh no, my people love me because I’m leading the resistance front.’ Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? s1e7: Syria: The Risk of Doing Nothing, Bashar al-Assad
Parents joined religious leaders in a march to demand their children be released. The marchers were peaceful but the forces of the regime opened fire, killing four. ibid.
‘You now had great powers pitted against each other in Syria, and with that the conflict was going to be very difficult to manage.’ ibid. US dude
Multiple reports that Assad was using chemical weapons. ibid.
Every solution you propose or present or pursue almost necessarily creates new problems. So even when you think you’ve done the right thing, you have generated a whole set of additional decisions that themselves put you back in this loop of imperfection. Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? s1e8: Syria: A Loop of Imperfection, US dude
What does this all end? ibid. Barack
A new force had emerged in Syria: Isis. ibid.
Americans had shown little appetite for sending their war planes to defend Syrians even when thousands were dying from Assad’s chemical weapons. But the televised beheading of an American journalist had raised a sudden appetite for revenge. This stark act of cruelty and injustice on a single young American kneeling in an orange jumpsuit in the desert awakened a bottomless anger. ibid.
‘This war was sold to the American people based on falsehood and lies.’ Political Deception: History is a Lie that No-One Contests III: Iraq: A Veritable Imposture, comment
George Bush changes enemies. Osama bin Laden is replaced by Saddam Hussein. This about-face is the fruit of an incredible manipulation with catastrophic consequences for the world. ibid.
A conventional war in the most unstable region in the world. Ibid
The machinery of lies runs at full throttle for months. ibid.
‘The sales campaign that took place, I would characterize as aggressive deception.’ ibid. comment
In the end the yellow-cake dossier will have a remarkable fate. ibid.
Early 2003: The American government decides to present its great manipulation to the world. ibid.
The night of March 19th the war begins. ibid.