A Halt to Genocide

I enjoyed the spring 2002 issue of the KSG Bulletin and particularly valued your review of Samantha Power’s new book,
“A Problem from Hell” America and the Age of Genocide. Her reconstruction of our nation’s failed responses to major genocides of the last century is a powerful indictment of America’s moral and political will. Administration after administration, she writes, was highly inventive in excusing their noninvolvement. Imperfect information, civil war, ancient rivalries, and state sovereignty were all used to justify why the United States should not interfere. She could have added our own country’s nearly 4,000 abortions each day, which, like the other genocides she researched, stagger the imagination. Like the atrocities she did cite, no U.S. president has ever made abortion prevention a priority, and no U.S. president has ever suffered politically for his indifference to its occurrence. And, like the other genocides, it is thus no coincidence that abortion rages on.

Matt D. Palmer MPA2 1982
Bexley, OH

I found the magazine very instructive of the current KSG activities and informative of the alumni’s post KSG whereabouts. The KSG magazine works as a true vehicle of information among students and alumni abroad.

Yuri Zamora MPA 2000
Washington, DC

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