"Sure, there has been genocide before that point and genocide after it, but to see an advanced, highly civilized nation warp itself into something capable of creating such a horror"

Is the Iraq war not a genocide? Millions of dead civilians.."collateral damage" as Rumsfeld says. Like their lives mean nothing. What about the genocide US forces did in Afghanistan? Or do their people not count because they're brown skinned.

"we have a moral obligation to do what we can to prevent such events from ever happening again." 

I agree. Yet such events are indeed happening right now as you read this. It's happening in Iraq. "Operation Iraqi Liberation." Iraqis view what the US administration is doing to their people & their country the same way Jews view what Hitler did to theirs. Yet our "moral obligations" conveniently turn a blind eye to the reality because it doesn't directly effect us, our race or religion. Over 1.5 million Iraq civilians massacred as result of the administrations illegal war. A 'pre-emptive' war upon a nation that had no proven WMD, no connections to 9/11, no proven threat to "our freedoms and way of life" it was all lies. Why are US forces still there? Why are innocent people, men, women & children being tortured? 7 years after 9-11, no end in sight. An entire nation going bankrupt from war fraud. An entire nation forced into horrific war on lies, massive fraud & fabricated "evidence". Iraqi's are having their own 'holocaust" as we turn a blind eye to the mass slaughter taking place under the phony guise of liberation and freedom. What are those with this so called "moral obligation" doing to stop the war? Nothing. But if it happened to our own people....