Democrats on Genocide

Barack Obama last week made it clear that he was willing to cause genocide and ethnic cleansing if it meant withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. Last night during the YouTube debates, Hillary Clinton made it clear that she was unwilling to put troops into Darfur in order to stop genocide and ethnic cleansing. I am, frankly, shocked at the stance.

What sort of polling did they do, what sort of morbid calculus did they come up with that leads them to take a stance towards genocide that could only generously be called ambivalent.

I thought that the Democratic candidates, Obama in particular, were suffering from simple denial about the real existence of ethnic cleansing. It turns out that I was wrong: they know it's there but they either don't care or or they don't feel it's important enough to try to stop.