After hearing all of my classmates give their presentations on their specific genocide events that they researched i cant help but just have an overall feeling of both sadness and anger. The sadness stemming form the fact that all of these innocent men, women, and children were killed for nothing and the anger stemming from the fact that all of these genocide events could have been stopped much earlier and they simply were not. Days like today really make me almost embarrassed to be an american citizen. I say this because, although i am proud of my country and i truly love that fact that i am American, i have this terrible feeling in my gut that if we (USA) had have put our foot down, we could have single handedly stopped these genocides, forget the rest of the world. All of the power and clout that the US has on an international scale could have been put to good use and could have saved lives instead of wasting them. Maybe the international community would even celebrate the USA instead of burning our flags and cursing our heritage. Maybe i am overstating this opinion but i can't help but feel a little bit of guilt for these events, even though i was too young to have even been alive for most of them.
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