Rwanda President Paul Kagame told me this week in Kigali that he sees American policy towards Rwanda and the region as enigmatic and hypocritical — and that American lip service toward democracy sometimes “feels and sounds just like a joke.”
Kagame, who has long had a complicated relationship with the United States, suggested that the scramble for key minerals has driven U.S. officials to favor Congo over his country — and brushed off U.S. criticism of Rwandan involvement in conflict there as merely a matter of U.S. interests.
“To make sure that this situation does not deliver Congo to China you just say good things to them. It doesn’t have to be right. It doesn’t have to be wrong,” he said.
Source: Yahoo News