And In Case You've Forgotten:

Rwanda was truly one of the great failures of the U.N.'s policy of humanitarian intervention (and in my mind, of U.S. humanitarian policy as well). 1994 was a long time ago. We can debate the efficacy of U.S. intervention in Rwanda until we're as tired of it as we're becoming tired of debating intervention in Iraq ... but at the end of the day, what really matters is remembering this:

KARUBAMBA, RWANDA - Nobody lives here any more. Not the expectant mothers huddled outside the maternity clinic, not the families squeezed into the church, not the man who lies rotting in a schoolroom beneath a chalkboard map of Africa.

Everybody here is dead. Karubamba is a vision from hell, a flesh-and-bone junkyard of human wreckage, an obscene slaughterhouse that has fallen silent save for the roaring buzz of flies the size of honeybees.

Go here to remember why we must thoughtfully consider our and the U.N.'s policy of intervention in sovereign states.