Samantha Power's 644p book on "America & the Age of Genocide" mentions East Timor but once, Guatemala never. A work of historical cleansing.
@CoreyRobin Yes. Almost every moral code, from Babylonian Talmud to Aquinas to our criminal statues, holds sins of commission are far worse.
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@ChMadar 1 other problem with Power: she assumes war is the antidote to genocide; in fact it almost always is the precipitant of genocide. -
@CoreyRobin not always, from my reading of her book. She calls for more involvement in preventing atrocity via diplomatic flexibility... -
@Scootles7 That's true. Fair enough.
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