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A voice in the wilderness
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People / Samantha Power
One of the heros of our time.
One of the bright lights in our world.
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See World Health / Genocide here.
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Perhaps the most
difficult book of painful
truths I've ever read.
I too have turned away
from those who
needed me.
This is my story.
My American story.
In every case domestic politics turned out to be more
important than stopping genocide in some faroff
corner of the world—and for that Power blames not
just government officials, but the American public,
who rarely paid attention to what was going on and
did little to press our government into action.
Power spent several years as a reporter in Bosnia
covering the war there. She is now the executive
director of the Carr Center for Human Rights at
Harvard University's Kennedy School, where she
teaches classes on human rights and U.S. foreign
policy.
—Katie Bacon
It is daunting to acknowedge, but this country's consistent policy
of nonintervention in the face of genocide offers sad testimony
not to a broken American political system but to one that is
ruthlessly effective. The system, as it stands now, is working.
No U.S. president has ever made genocide prevention a priority,
and no U.S. president has ever suffered politically for his
indifference to its occurrence. It is thus no coincidence that
genocide rages on.
Samantha Power
from the preface
