I've always liked Canada although sometimes I feel you guys are taking over our news anchormen and leading actors. No sooner am I praising a new young American on the scene then someone tells me they are Canadian like isn't it obvious and how dum are you not to know it already. And I know a lot of Canada people feel the same way about yanks.

There was a recent retrospective on the Rwanda massacres. A whole host of interviews were made, ex-President Clinton, then Secretary Albright, and Kofi Annan. Nobody came off of it looking good. I saw the General interviewed on his experiences. If I'm remembering him correctly he's a French Canadian and very eloquent. He was on site with a small force of UN soldiers from where I don't remember, dealing with a group of the leading killers and he felt he was looking into faces of evil. It was already apparent from the interview that he was emotionally scarred. I had seen him years before on TV and I thought he was French.

This may be hard to put in a proper context:
The fact that he was obviously very distressed over events and felt guilt at his involvement made me think more of him as a person, but my memory is that he and his force were almost entirely ineffective at saving Rwandan lives because although he had a small force of UN soldiers, he was vastly outnumbered. So his force was transformed from 'player' to 'hostage'. I was struck with the contrast between willingness and effectiveness in this case. I believe the General regrets that he didn't put his forces more at risk, which was his big choice to make at the time. Unfortunately, he knows now things he could not have known then.