Next time you see anti-war protesters…

GO see the film “Hotel Rwanda.” Don’t wait for the DVD. See it in a theater, where you’ll get the maximum impact.

Telling the story of one brave man who found unexpected resources within himself, the movie captures the bewilderment and terror of those awaiting death at the hands of their neighbors — as the world looked on and did nothing. It’s as close as most of us ever will come to learning the cost of Clinton-era hypocrisy and cowardice.

For two hours, you get a look at the savagery that haunts the struggling world beyond our shores. Of course, you won’t have to smell the gutted bowels or swollen-to-bursting corpses. And you won’t see the worst of the atrocities that took a million lives in Rwanda. But you’ll see enough.

And you won’t be let off the hook with cold statistics. This piercing film shows us the impact of great events on little lives. You’ll see what awaits the innocent when the whole world looks away, when the deadly bigots are given the run of the house.

Not only in Rwanda. But in Sudan’s Darfur region. Or in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.

Only one thing troubles me about “Hotel Rwanda”: Those on the left will see this film, shake their heads . . . and conclude they’ve done their duty by spending a couple of bucks at the multiplex. The one thing the left won’t take from the film is a sense of its moral bankruptcy.

The left is blind to the suffering it condones. But every ranking member of the Clinton administration should live in shame not only at Clinton’s reluctance to intervene in Rwanda, but at his outright obstruction of efforts to address the problem in the U.N. Security Council (you know you’ve hit a moral bottom when the United Nations looks more virtuous). […]