Once upon a time, in the capitols of the West, there appeared to be widespread agreement on at least one thing: genocide was immoral. Christians and Jews, agnostics and atheists, and Republicans and Democrats, for that matter, seemed in agreement on one thing: genocide was immoral. There was outrage in the West over the "ethnic cleansing" of the former Yugoslavia. Western European nations, as well as the always-spoiling-for-an-invasion Americans rushed to intervene in Bosnia and Herzegovina to prevent genocide. Moreover, the victims of genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina were Muslims. Rwanda? The West eventually decided it had to intervene to … Continue reading When Genocide Was Wrong