I have criticized President Obama perhaps a lil too harsh lately.

[nadinbrzezinski]

39. genocide has a very specific meaning

Genocide is "the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, Caste, religious, or national group",[1] though what constitutes enough of a "part" to qualify as genocide has been subject to much debate by legal scholars.[2][3]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide

Definition of GENOCIDE

: the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group
— geno·cid·al adjective
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This is Websters

mas·sa·cre
ˈmasikər/Submit
noun
1.
an indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people.
"the attack was described as a cold-blooded massacre"
synonyms: slaughter, wholesale/mass slaughter, indiscriminate killing, mass murder, mass execution, annihilation, liquidation, decimation, extermination; More
informal
a heavy defeat of a sports team or contestant.
verb
verb: massacre; 3rd person present: massacres; past tense: massacred; past participle: massacred; gerund or present participle: massacring
1.
deliberately and violently kill (a large number of people).
synonyms: slaughter, butcher, murder, kill, annihilate, exterminate, execute, liquidate, eliminate, decimate, wipe out, mow down, cut down, put to the sword, put to death; More

I am sorry if I still believe in words having meanings, specific to them.

Can Syria see genocide? Yes, absolutely, but none who is a responsible adult has called this genocide, YET. Was what happened in the outskirts of damascus a massacre? Yes, it fit the definition to a T.

What was happening in Bosnia was genocide. what happened to the Maya in Guatemala in the 1980s (and I bet you had no clue until now) was genocide. On the other hand, the cold blooded murder of US Troops in 1944 was a massacre, as well as the killing at Wounded Knee