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Samantha Power in THE PROBLEM FROM HELL also describes in detail how the US for decades refused to ratify the 1948 Genocide Convention, on the grounds of national sovereignty, until 1986, when Sen William Proxmire's continual daily speeches on the subject since 1967 finally resulted in the convincing of Pres Reagan & the Senate's very belated ratification. The biggest drawback to ths US from such non-ratification was the USSR's cont'd opps to point to American hypocrisy whenever Communist human rights abuses were mentioned, on the grounds that Washington hadn't even made genocide a part of US domestic law, whereas Moscow had Now, what would've been the effects of an earlier US ratification of the Genocide Convention ?