Janjaweed expands conflct, genocide into Chad

[Sethomas]

When I went to Dachau, I saw a marker that said "Nie Wieder, Jamais Plus, Never Again" et cetera. It's my understanding that similar markers are at other Nazi concentration/death camps. When I listened to a talk by Bill Ayers two years ago, he brought it up with the Milosevic and Rwanda episodes in mind. He said something to the lines of, "What exactly, 'never again'? Extermination of the European Jews? Allowing a man with a funny mustache to come into power?"

I think the point is, we've either learned something about genocide or we haven't. I for one do not know what the best course of action is, but I have a lingering feeling that it's not a good idea to wait until the smoke clears and grass grows over the graves to figure out what the best course of action used to be. Like Hegel said, history repeats itself once as tragedy and then again as farce.