History professor,

How many more Holocaust memorials will it take before the UN passes a chapter 7 resolution requiring the Khartoum government to end the Darfur genocide? I would think that one unavoidable lesson of the past decade is that people and nations can obsessively commemorate past genocides without feeling particularly exercised by current ones. Lamenting past catastrophes is easy, stopping current ones is hard. Whatever the value of mourning the Holocaust, it serves no prophylactic purpose worth speaking of. At this point it's just silly to pretend otherwise.

Joey