NATIONAL REVIEW
Obama’s ‘Atrocity Prevention Board’ — Abandoned, but Not Forgotten
by Elliott Abrams
October 7, 2015

In April 2012, Barack Obama went to the Holocaust Museum to declare, in solemn tones, that the lessons of the Holocaust and other episodes of genocide must be learned — and under his leadership American would learn them. Never again! he said. And he called that day for establishing a new government body called the Atrocity Prevention Board. Now the fanfares of 2012 have died down, and Syrians are dying by the hundreds of thousands, so it is fair to ask, “Whatever happened to all those claims, all that moral posturing, and that board?” Now comes a dispassionate assessment of the institution, by James P. Finkel in the journal Genocide Studies and Prevention. READ MORE