"beardedbruce - So why is it the U.S. didn't go it alone in Rwanda?"
THAT is the question I was asking."

Correction, beardedbruce. That is the question I was asking, and you still haven't answered it yet.
I can imagine the reason, though..., as I'm sure you can, as well: 'Who needs the Rwandans?'
Sort of like, 'Who needs the Kurds?', when Saddam was coming down heavy on them in his halcyon years, as to why we didn't invade him 'for killing his own people', then.

Hypocrisy, I think the word is called, beardedbruce, and it normally swings the balance of whether or not we give a damn about other peoples' situations, if they have something worthwhile to offer us in return.
The question should then have been: "What do the Rwandan's have to offer us?"

C'est la vie in the big wide world, beardedbruce, and for the Bush Administration to say that they actually care about 'Saddam's own people' (like they're doing now for instance), is another little bit of the same pretzel logic at work.
Like this, for instance:
"...the number killed by all the WMD of Iraq's stockpile that may be used in the future."

Why not add to that the number killed because some butterfly in China flapped it's wings?

Jim