Tom Brokaw breaks the silence

On October 14,2008, during the 2008 US Presidential debate, Tom Brokaw asked the candidates: "Sen. Obama, let me ask you if -- let's see if we can establish tonight the Obama doctrine and the McCain doctrine for the use of United States combat forces in situations where there's a humanitarian crisis, but it does not affect our national security.

Take the Congo, where 4.5 million people have died since 1998, or take Rwanda in the earlier dreadful days, or Somalia.

What is the Obama doctrine for use of force that the United States would send when we don't have national security issues at stake?"

Brokaw explains on The Diane Rehm Show how he formulated that question.

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[AutoBahnForever]

@19NaVi72 .......It is NPRs Diane Reem........she is older and has some kind of speech impediment.

[19NaVi72]

Is the narrator drunk?

[Walnut28Comms]

Interesting that Brokaw's point is that the Hutus and Tutsi's of Rwanda are able to talk "nice" to each other, in an attempt to re-create a peaceful co-existence after a horrific, violent epic of genocide, whereas the two comments below seem to illustrate how "mature and civilized" we are in the US.

[trisnjok]

@myusernameistaken:

you make me sick, you fuckin' arsehole... you don't deserve to call yourself a human being, idiot...

[tamarahoiyan]

i don't know why you would go out of your way to put someone down.

[myusernameistaken23]

Are you retarded? Sounds like you have something missing...