Abstract
American policy on genocide prevention often reads like a children's story or a screenplay for a Hollywood B-movie. The ''bad guys'' (the wolves) are committing horrific acts against innocent civilians (the sheep) out of sheer malice and can only be stopped by the ''good guys'' wearing the uniform of the US Army. The problem is that this approach not only dominates the media, but it has also become popular among academics. Many well-intentioned Americans, outraged at the human suffering shown on network news broadcasts, call for immediate action to ''stop genocide'' at any cost. And because of the media's political agenda, this usually means human rights abuses in the Sudan rather than in Colombia or Sri Lanka. However, this ''buy now'' televi- sion marketing of foreign policy is hardly conducive to serious academic discussions of such a complex and contradictory phenomenon as systematic mass murder.
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