Explores how US presidents, ministers and generals have responded to political conflicts like genocides and ethnic cleansing since the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
EPISODE 1
Iraq
US presidents, ministers and generals discuss the ethical, political and military choices they face in the 1991 Iraq War and if they regret any of them.
EPISODE 2
Bosnia
In the 1990s, Yugoslavia disintegrates as the Serbs besiege Sarajevo and new images of concentration camps in Europe go around the world. President Clinton is indecisive, but the murder of 8,000 Bosnian men in Srebrenica in 1995 changes everything.
EPISODE 3
Rwanda
In the spring of 1994, a violent genocide devastates Rwanda. In 100 days, 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus are killed, but the UN and the international community do nothing.
EPISODE 4
Kosovo
The 1995 Dayton Agreement puts an end to Serbia's genocide of the Bosniaks but does not mention Kosovo, which the international community considered a part of Serbia. But in the late 1990s, Albanians in Kosovo begin to violently revolt.
EPISODE 5
Darfur
In 2003, a conflict in Sudan develops into an ethnic cleansing of minorities. When an international arrest warrant is issued for Sudan's president, Omar El-Bashir, he responds by kicking all aid workers out of the country.
EPISODE 6
Libya
In February 2011, Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi sends troops to Benghazi with the aim of killing everyone in the growing opposition. Both the Arab League and the UN Security Council vote in favour of an intervention.
Dror Moreh
