IIRC Clinton let Rawanda burn because of the clusterfuck in Somalia being recent in everyone's memories and that in turn, Bosnia/Croatia got our attention BECAUSE we let Rawanda burn and people got pissy over it.
Bosnia was a bit unique in that bombing military targets (hospitals and medicine factories) looked better on the front page of the papers than all of the rape accusations towards Bill that were turning from Arkansas water cooler talk to national news.
My thoughts on abortion, no matter what
@Blackh0le says. Stephen Levitt's "Freakanomics" entertained abortion as a means to prevent crime, using early 20th century Romania as an example. They had a policy of forced pregnancy and birth for the sake of nationalism and population growth. Now that women that didn't want children were forced to have them, they did a dogshit job of raising them. 20 or so years after the policy, all the unwanted children were reaching adulthood and Romania suffered one of the worst crime waves in its history.
I couldn't help but compare the idea to Minority Report, but instead of using psychics to detect pre-crime, they used statisticians. The data is what it is, but it raises the moral question of if it's okay to punish someone for a crime theyre likely to, but haven't, committed. In the book/film, the point was that it was immoral, even when you have a reliable means to predict the future. We don't have that ability in the real world, but the issue of morality is a lot more ambiguous. Fortunately, America, and any republic or federalist society is equipped to deal with these problems; leave it to the states. If (hypothetically) 90% of California wants total access to abortions, including post birth, then that is California's decision to make. If Alabama chooses the opposite, then so be it. The problem lies on California being unable to accept that they shouldn't have legislative power outside their borders. Unfortunately, the right has been dealing with these tactics for so long that they're starting to adopt them, and Alabama wants to not only defy California's orders, but give them orders in return.
Theres only 2 solutions I can see for this.
1- Balkanization, or at least a return to a true republic.
2- About 1500 feet of rope and a day trip to D.C.
P.S. Don't mimic the political ideologies of countries that can't manufacture a reliable AK-47 variant.
P.S.S. I pray these airline walkouts don't hit Alaska Airlines before next week. My spouse and I are in San Francisco saying goodbye to one of her terminally I'll family members and I can't spend another week here. I'm already looking for water towers to climb with a rifle. We may get lucky since Alaska mostly deals with west coasters and their unions are much more likely to cuck to the mandates than others.
Edit- you can't forget this gem. You can tell by the dental hygiene that this was in Europe.