The White House is reeling from a public argument against advisor Susan Rice placed recently in the NYT suggesting she has “a blind spot for genocide.” The problem of genocide is beginning to envelope the administration as it limps toward the finish line of the second term. There are a number of important contributions to the lacuna in the administration’s vision for stopping the serious problem of genocide. These problems can be overcome and become a basis for ending genocide: The false binary between war and peace. Candidate Obama was eager to challenge the prudence of American military activity in Iraq.  He derived great rhetorical power from the nascent notions of withdrawal founded in the Vietnam era of American foreign policy. His current secretary of state pioneered some key notions of American soldiers as more malicious than benign. The naive notions of ‘giving peace a chance’ have made American foreign policy ever more...(Read Full Article)