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Article: The time has come to study the face of evil.(Column)
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- The Humanist
- Article date:
- November 1, 1995
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There are many troubling lessons to be learned from the continuing horror in Bosnia, some more obvious than others. The more easily grasped lessons have to do with the inability of the world community, despite its revulsion at the unending cycle of atrocity and reprisal, to stop the violence. Beyond this sad truth lie other disturbing realities concerning the motivations of those engaged in "ethnic cleansing" and other acts of savagery.
The most pertinent for Americans is the absence of a single individual or group of individuals who can definitevely be blamed for the violence. This is hard for us to accept, since for over a century our government and media have ...