Patterns Of Genocide -- A Book Review

Machetes collected at the Rwandan border after the 1994 genocide. Jenny Matthews/Panos

From The New York Times:

Evil repels analysis. Poets from the time of Homer have sung of war, but only a monster sings of atrocities. So, too, with journalism and scholarship. We are admonished not to ascribe rational motives to Osama bin Laden or Hitler, or to their followers. To admit of motives is to reduce the moral to the psychological, and thus to the comprehensible, and thus perhaps to the acceptable. Our understanding of unspeakable acts is limited on the one hand to the irreducible moral fact of evil, and on the other to the dynamics of mob psychology — of mass lunacy.

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My Comment: I can write 10 books on this topic because this is a subject that demands more analysis and study .... but I am also sure that what I will produce will only touch the surface on what is a dreadful topic.