Foreign Policy: on Welfare & Poverty

Susan Rice: 1994: Regrets no U.S. intervention in Rwandan genocide

"Everyone who lived through that feels profoundly remorseful and bothered by it," Rice told me in an interview in 2008, though she said she was too "junior" at the time to have affected decision-making very much.

Even so, Rice later came under criticism for her relationship with Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who was supplying and financing a brutal Congolese rebel force known as the March 23 (M23) Movement. While Rice did criticize M23, she avoided linking the group to Rwanda and Kagame.