For Most Of History, Genocide Was Just

In Much Of The World, The Most Dangerous Thing A Woman Can Do Is Become Pregnant.

American Airstrikes...create Risks, Especially If Our Intelligence There Is Rusty. The Crucial Step, And The One We Should Apply Diplomatic Pressure To Try To Achieve, Is For Maliki To Step Back And Share Power With Sunnis While Accepting Decentralization Of Government. If Maliki Does All That, It May Still Be Possible To Save Iraq. Without That, Airstrikes Would Be A Further Waste In A Land In Which We've Already Squandered Far, Far Too Much.

If Only Women Are Talking About Women's Rights, Then The Issue Has Failed From The Start. If You Think About The Holocaust, That Wasn't Just A Jewish Issue. Civil Rights Weren't Just A Black Issue.

The North Of The Central African Republic Is Now A War Zone, With Rival Armed Bands Burning Villages, Kidnapping Children, Robbing Travelers And Killing People With Impunity.

Photographs Are Still Being Taken But Aren't Being Shown. There's One Of A Skeleton Bound At The Wrists With Pants Still Around Its Ankles; If It Was A Woman, She Was Likely Raped; If It Was A Man, He Was Possibly Castrated.