At last, US rhetoric on genocide may mature into effective policy against genocide. What better place to begin than the confirmation hearings to be held Tuesday by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee?

The bi-partisan "Genocide Prevention Taskforce" published its recommendations on December 8, 2008. Their "blueprint for action" comes just in time for the 60th anniversaries of the landmark "Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide" and the "Universal Declaration of Human...