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South Africa in the 1980s was the right time and place for divestment. Apartheid’s racist laws and South Africa’s brutal repression of blacks were morally repugnant. Many institutions, including Harvard, divested their holdings in South African companies, as divestment was incorporated into a larger campaign of international censure, which was one prominent factor that successfully brought an end to the Apartheid system...
...power. But the Iraqi opposition, made up of Kurds in the north and Shi'ite Muslims in the south, is fragmented, largely untested and faced with an Iraqi army much larger and more sophisticated than the one the Northern Alliance helped vanquish in Afghanistan. Given Saddam's brutal record of using chemical weapons against the Kurds and the U.S.'s past failure to help rebelling Kurds as well as Shi'ites in the south, Iraqis would be understandably wary of heeding an American call to rise...
...liberal democracy in the West, for that matter—should even want to be on this so-called “human rights” commission. For example, on April 22 the commission voted 20-19 against a U.S. resolution to censure Iran for political murders, torture, brutal discrimination against minorities and violent restrictions of press freedom. A day later the Iranian regime tragically executed six young men who had, according to official government language, “disturbed public order.” In light of this open butchery, the U.N.’s decision...
...tremendously misguided in believing an invasion is the proper course of action. Despite being labeled the next logical extension of the war on terrorism, an attack on Iraq will be nothing but an attempt to fix the Gulf War’s failures. Saddam Hussein is indeed a brutal, dangerous dictator, but a large-scale invasion at this time seems sadly self-serving, unjustifiably reckless and unfortunately counterintuitive given our efforts to win allies in the unstable Middle East...
This results in a Lady Macbeth that’s more compassionate and less brutal than most have seen. In scenes previewed by The Crimson, she caressed Macbeth in his troubled times, not manipulatively to spur him to kill, but tenderly to ease his mind. Faiman’s character constantly tries to reassure her husband and ground him in the natural, not supernatural, world...