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“ Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbors, as their thirst for vengeance, their irredentism and their acceptance of violence as a means of generating change can turn them into future threats. ”

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The United Staes had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred

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Half of Syria's refugees are children, and we know what can happen to children who grow to adulthood without hope or opportunity in refugee camps. The camps become fertile recruiting grounds for violent extremists.

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I'm relieved that after all these years of doing atrocity work, I still cry my eyes out every time I read the paper in the morning. It's surprising, actually.

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In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

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