American Genocide Case Study

While the American people can generally agree that mass killings are a horrible thing, there are a few other aspects about the citizens that present an interesting issue. One of the biggest issues is the term genocide itself. The word is one which carries a lot of weight behind it and is somewhat scary to people. This is shown in a study in which people were asked if the United States should intervene in a situation in which genocide has occurred. An impressive 65 percent said “always”, while 23 percent said “only when American interests are involved”, and only 6 percent said “never”. The study went on to ask if they would favor some intervention in the Bosnian and Rwandan genocides, a whopping 80 percent said they would be in favor of intervention …show more content…
The simplest would be to create or strengthen a department of the United Nations. The purpose of the revised United Nations would be to stop genocide while it is happening rather than just to deal with the aftermath. The UN would steal hand out punishments, but the United Nations would also have the ability to stop the act while it is in progress. This is necessary because anyone that carries out genocide is not of sound state of mind. There was a former SS officer, from the Holocaust, who claimed he had a moral guilt for the Holocaust, however there was no sign that he regretted not killing a baby. The baby, to keep the story brief, was ripped from a Jewish woman's arms and then would not stop crying. So the man that was the former SS officer picked it up, and threw it against a wall. The baby stopped crying and the SS went back to whatever they were doing, without batting an eyelash (Schofield). Find a person that could do that and is of sound mind. Find a person that is mentally stable and could do that and go about their business for most of their life and not feel any sort of remorse. The answer is simple. There is not a person like that at all. Anyone who commits genocide or helps commit it for that matter needs to be stopped and then persecuted to the fullest extent. The reason being that if they are not stopped they will keep going and if they are not persecuted and find another position of power, they will likely attempt to or commit the same crimes again. The new UN department would create an army that the UN could have power over and regulate, to be able to go into states that are committing genocide. As previously stated, the UN has both a moral and written obligation to prevent genocide if possible, even if the Dutch ruled against it. The Dutch would surely be ok with less genocide on Earth, so the ruling could still be valid, as a kind of fail safe for the UN,