[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 104 (Tuesday, August 2, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 2, 1994]
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                                 RWANDA

  (Mr. DUNCAN asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, the situation in Rwanda is a terrible, 
heart-breaking tragedy. We need to do all we reasonably can to help 
out. I especially want to commend the work there by the agency for 
International Development and its administrator, Brian Atwood.
  However, it is absolutely shameful that most other countries around 
the world are doing so little. Most are doing nothing at all.
  What are the French doing? What about the Germans? The Japanese, the 
Swedes? The answer is, very little, in comparison to us.
  The United States needs to play a leadership role. I am glad that we 
do more than other nations in these international tragedies.
  But, we are not some sort of gigantic money tree--not when we have a 
national debt of $4\1/2\ trillion.
  It is not fair to our people for other nations to sit back and expect 
us to foot the bill, almost alone, for every tragic situation in the 
world.
  In the future, we need to lead by convening an emergency meeting of 
every nation willing to help out when disaster strikes.
  I know we will do more than our share, but we need to let the world 
community know that we can no longer do it all, we can no longer do it 
alone.

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