It’s time for the United States to examine how its own foreign policy promotes genocide, and take the actions necessary to curb it. The 65th anniversary of the international Genocide Convention offers an occasion to review Washington’s dismal record of failing to prevent–and in fact, sometimes abetting–genocide. (Image: LKEM / Flickr) By Jeff Bachmann Foreign Policy In Focus December 9, 2013 Today marks the 65th anniversary of the Genocide Convention , the groundbreaking United Nations document that declared genocide to be an international crime. The anniversary provides an ideal opportunity to look at the United States’ record in preventing genocide around the world. That record is dismal. Why? The most frequent explanations for America’s failure to prevent genocide concern a lack of national interest or political will. Both have indeed been influential. But a more honest account would acknowledge the United States’ own complicity in backing gen...