If by "We" you mean the world, it's all too obvious that we've learned nothing. This is the one topic that makes me feel old and frustrated. I wonder if a single week has gone by in the last 300 years during which a wholesale slaughter over race or land hasn't taken place somewhere in the world? Or even in the past 3000 years? And yet people dread the annihilation of the human race.

Naive but true: The only way to ensure that this sort of genocide does not take place again is for the Armenians to forgive the Turks and the Turks to forgive Armenian crimes against them. And the same throughout the world. Not in my lifetime but there it is. Not forget but forgive.

Now I find it hard to forgive a neighbor for pulling a lot of petty BS on me and mine or shovelling snow into my parking space. How do you forgive the murder of a parent, the rape of a wife or mother or sister, the total destruction of a way of life?