If Only The French

would employ this much discretion. We get this from 100 Days Of Rwanda:

July 05, 2004
Day 91

Ten years ago today: When asked U.S. opinion on the French's apparent about-face on the mandate of Operation Turquoise, a State Department spokeswoman said,

Since we don't have an in-country presence, I'm not sure that we would be in a position to evaluate or make a judgment on every action or activity that has taken place.

For some reason, I can't imagine the French Foreign Minister saying something like this regarding the US.