Google searches do not readily turn up any statements made by Harry Reid at that time. He assumed the U.S. Senate office he now holds way back in 1987 during the Reagan administration. At that time he was a junior senator.
In 1994, President Bill Clinton did nothing about the genocide going on in Rwanda, as detailed in this wikipedia article. The article goes onto quote Clinton as saying that was the biggest mistake of his presidency. Yet, the article seems to lend credence to Clinton’s fear of involvement after the U.S. was readily trounced during its’ incursion in Somalia not long before the Rwandan civil war crisis and genocide.
Does anyone have a constituent letter or any other printed material that would show a Harry Reid position on Rwanda? It would be interesting now that the issues of whether to become involved in Syria are playing out in the U.S. Congress.
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