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How is this Clinton's problem? Because it happened on his watch?

Then this must be Bush's problem:

http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/congo/2005/0107volatile.htm

31,000 per month. Every month. That's roughly 360,000 a year, times 5 years equals.....

Or maybe it's not a US problem at all. Who made us the hall monitors of the world? Certainly not our Constitution.

It's not our responsibility to fix the ills of the world unless they're a direct threat to our economic or security interests. The so-called "Humanitarian" relief has done NOTHING but line the pockets of the despots in power. And we've seen what happens when we give the money to the UN to "care-take" the operation.

I agree with Mike S. on this one. What's Clinton supposed to say, anyway. He accepted personal responsibility, although, like Mike, I'm not sure it's our responsibility to feed the world. For a really interesting and different take on our aid to Africa, read this:

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,363663,00.html

It goes along with what Mike said about lining the pockets of tyrants.

Wow, Cait, what a great article.

The interviewee sees that self sufficiency is the way to prosper. Not taking hand-outs. I wish the so-called leaders in our country that push welfare and other social hand-outs had the same outlook.

IMO I think that while this started during Clinton's administration, he could have done something....anything.

This was during the time that I was under the nasty spell of being a Democrat and even with that in mind I couldn't believe that he was doing nothing - not even trying to get the fracking United Nations to intervene.

As with everyone that assigns blame to President Bush for anything/everything happening in the world, this same standard also applies to Clinton.

The sad part is, as that article points out, all our aid seems to do is find its way into the pockets of the reigning tyrants, rather than feed the starving. I'm not a Clinton fan. I believe he should have taken the opportunities he had to snuff OBL. But, in every administration, there are going to be world events and national events that the president can be blamed for, either for sins of commission or sins of omission. Probably Clinton should have done something about the situation in Rwanda. The question is "What?" considering all the prior failures of American, UN, and world aid.