Whenever the US has failed to respond to ethnic cleansing of the sort ongoing in Dar Fur, a nasty series of consequences has always returned to haunt us. The absence of leadership and imagination in Bosnia paved the inroads Iran and other enemies of America made in the region connecting with organized crime elements and embittered refugees, nearly destroyed the NATO alliance, unhinged the UN's peacekeeping efforts (it has not yet recovered and likely never will) and almost managed to kick off a widespread conflict in the Balkans involving Turkey, Greece and Russia.
The US policy to ignore the Rwandan genocide while actively preventing other nations from acting (aside from France who unsuccessfully intervened to help their Hutu Power allies save face) tipped Central Africa into a cataclysm it has yet to truly recover from; the first African "World War" which took the lives of 4 million people and emboldened current and future enemies (Zimbabwe, Sudan, Angola) of America to employ aggression, systematic rape and mass murder without fear of any punishment in a critical scramble for resources, influence and power the US does not yet even begin to understand because it lacks on even a basic scale an appreciation for Africa's perils and promise.
