Being An Occupier Is Not Good For

When Dictators Feel Their Support Slipping Among Adults, It Is Not Unusual For Them To Alter School Textbooks In The Hope Of Enlisting Impressionable Youths In Their Cause.

My Second Epiphany Came As An Intern At The Carnegie Endowment For International Peace. The Man I Worked For Was Consumed With What Was Going On In Bosnia. And The More I Knew [about It] The More Saddened I Was. There Were These Images Of Emaciated Men Behind Barbed Wire.... It Was Like, I've Got To Find A Way To Do Something.

When I Wake Up In The Middle Of The Night When I Hear One Of My Kids Coughing Or Crying, I Think About Syria.

From Richard Holbrooke - And I Miss Him Every Day - I Learned Two Things. One, Prioritization: Never Take Your Eye Off The Longer-term Reforms. The Other Thing Is, He Was A Hell Of A Schmoozer! So I Should Take Advantage Of My Irish Love Of Beer And Gift Of The Gab, And Build Relationships. That's A Cherished Part Of The Job, Asking Someone, "how Did You Get To Be The Rwandan Ambassador?" I Try To Take Advantage Of The Fact That I Hope To Be Here At Least Until The President's Term Ends Getting To Know My Colleagues.

The Story Of U.s. Policy During The Genocide In Rwanda Is Not A Story Of Willful Complicity With Evil. U.s. Officials Did Not Sit Around And Conspire To Allow Genocide To Happen.