President Clinton has referred to the failure of the U.S. government to intervene in the genocide as one of his main foreign policy failings, saying "I don't think we could have ended the violence, but I think we could have cut it down.
Predsjednik Clinton je iz neuspjeh američke intervecije u genocidu označio kao jedan od njegovih glavnih promašaja vanjske politike, govoreći: "ne mislim da smo mogli okončati nasilje, ali mislim da smo ga mogli smanjiti.