Written by: Goemagog

Genocide preventable says Kofi Annan and Elie Wiesel.

"If the world had listened, we may have prevented Darfur, Cambodia, Bosnia and naturally Rwanda," Wiesel said.

Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia all occured with the support of most of the countries on their respective continents. The only person who saw a genocide coming and stopped it is Pinochet, and the thanks he gets for stopping Allende's dream of Chilean killing fields is to be villified by most of the world.

"The tragedy of the Jewish people was unique," Annan said. "Two thirds of all Europe's Jews, including one and a half million children, were murdered. An entire civilization, which had contributed far beyond its numbers to the cultural and intellectual riches of Europe and the world, was uprooted, destroyed, laid waste."

A situation that most of Annan's UN compatriots would welcome if it came again.

Wiesel asked how "intelligent, educated men, or simply law-abiding citizens, ordinary men" could fire machine guns at hundreds of children every day and read Schiller and listen to Bach in the evening.

Aim low.

Italy's Marcello Pera, speaker of the Senate, was blunt. "How was it possible that Europe, at the peak of its civilization could commit such a crime? How could Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, collaborationist France and many others become responsible...of such an immense massacre?"

Continental Europe passed it's peak with the French Revolution and it's Reign of Terror. The belief that being unpopular is inherently immoral came from that and has been used as justification for every genocide that followed. The poisonous intolerance had soaked deep into European philosophy and ideology by the Year of Revolutions. The only thing that has changed is who gets to decide how popularity is measured.

He assured Israel that it could "always rely" on support because "the security of its citizens will forever remain nonnegotiable fixtures of German foreign policy."

So says the German Foreign Minister, staunch ally of Palestinian terrorists.

"We know that there have been far too many occasions in the six decades since the liberation of the concentration camps when the world ignored inconvenient truths so that it would not have to act or acted too late," Wolfowitz said.

Like Darfur, where villagers will be killed today because their skin is too dark. The only mention of Darfur, where a genocide is ongoing, is by Mr. Wiesel, who used the past tense.

Goe, wants an end to genocide before it's his turn to climb in an oven.