Review of:
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power | Basic, 640 pp, £21.99
War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton and the Generals by David Halberstam
| Bloomsbury, 540 pp, £20.00
"Because there is no unambiguous right without a reliable remedy, it follows that, under traditional international law, citizens had no right not to be brutally murdered by their governments within their state's sovereign frontiers. Every government was master in its own house, and mass murder was an internal affair."