Sounds rather one sided to me. You put out the word that anyone seen attacking someone with a deadly weapon will be shot and then you follow through. Odds are that the machete attacks would stop pretty soon.

Unfortunately, that isn't what happened. On the first day of the Rhowanda genocide, 10 Belgium "peacekeepers" were killed. Instead of fighting back, they withdrew and the slaughter went unchecked. An estimated 800,000 people were murdered in the next 3 months.

Should America have stepped in to try and halt the violence? I believe we should have. After all, the Rwondian genocide was many times more deadly and horrific that what was going on in the Balkans and we intervened there. I honestly don't know why we didn't do anything and I hope to God that it wasn't a racial thing like a lot of Africans believe.