Category: Ending Genocide

A Picture of Heroism, A Picture of Hate

This piece appeared in The Forward (the national Jewish newspaper), August 19-25, 2005 A small photograph in the “Liberation!” exhibit at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles reveals not just Nazi intolerance, but our own. Quite possibly the curators

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Rescuing Ourselves (Redux)

When desperate victims in far distant conflicts plead for U.S. help, can American forces ever be used for anything other than saving Americans? Sojourners Magazine, Sept/Oct 2003 “It is not only what we do, but also what we do not

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Who Will Prevent Ivory Coast From Becoming The Next Rwanda?

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. – Moliere, actor and playwright (1622-1673) Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, May/June 2003 French troops arrived in Ivory Coast only days after

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Rescuing Ourselves

Behind Enemy Lines portrays an American heroism in Yugoslavia that was mostly conspicuous by its absence. Los Angeles Times, 12/10/01 In the recent movie Behind Enemy Lines, an American pilot and navigator are shot down over the former Yugoslavia, only

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