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Both the NYT and USAT Clinton-on-Rwanda pieces note a political factor that at the time inhibited U.S. action, but which Clinton didn't mention: Public support for U.S. involvement in peacekeeping missions evaporated just prior to the Rwanda situation when 18 U.S. soldiers were killed in an ambush in Somalia.
According to the tribals' own account, when they approached one of the vehicles, they quickly determined that women and children were inside and called off the ambush.
Compare Moyers with 60 Minutes , whose rough-and-tumble, ambush journalism is the antithesis of his.
The New York Times ' Caryn James says it undermined the whole episode, making "Ambush" "something the show has never been before and isn't likely to be again: terminally dull."
See, e.g., CIA briefing materials, CTC UBL Update:"Must Do Some Fundamental Rethinking,"July 20, 1999 (Afghan assets are not capable of mounting a UBL capture operation or ambush); CIA briefing materials, CTC UBL Update:"Problems with Capturing UBL,"Aug.