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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

Reparations – not just aid – should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and – together with other criminal states – for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires.

Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it’s again not people who are intrinsically evil.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.