I read this book “America and the Age of Genocide” that won the Pulitzer Prize like two years ago, which also eventually prompted me to interview the former Bosnia’s foreign minister and ambassador to the UN during the war in former Yugoslavia in the context of U.S. policy toward genocide and the role human rights play in American foreign policy. If you are interested you can find it here:
The European Courier | Muhamed Sacirbey

Anyway, I think it is pretty much incomprehensible, why the U.S., the most powerful country in the world stays indifferent, when the genocide is ongoing and millions of people are being slaughtered around the world. How is it possible that U.S. president says that we are fighting in Iraq because we want to spread democracy and at the same time the U.S. doesn’t undertake any endeavors to stop genocide in Darfur, previously in Rwanda, Cambodia etc. (actually the U.S. supported politically and diplomatically Pol Pot, who is regarded the second to Hitler biggest maniac of the XX century). Do you see any consistency in the U.S. foreign policy? Is in American opinion, the right to democracy more important than the right to life? It’s XXI century and there is no moral leadership on the side of the U.S., which becomes so indifferent about sufferings of other people. When almost 3 thousand people died on 9/11, the U.S. generated support and compassion from almost the whole world. On the other hand when 8 thousand people were dying in Rwanda A DAY, no American gave a damn.