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Pinochet’s human rights abuses are real, but they have also been played up by leftists in South America and their sympathizers in the West. In many cases, critics use Pinochet’s human rights abuses as convenient philosophical dressing to cloak the real reason for why they oppose him: He successfully proved the fallacies of the destructive ideology of statist socialism—an ideology void of morality, contrary to human nature, and totally dysfunctional in practice. It is ideologically opposed to the principles on which modern Western nations were founded, yet unfortunately still enjoys deep...
...only are Arab women largely excluded from political participation - the report notes that most of the handful of Arab women cabinet ministers tend to hold symbolic rather than influential positions - they often suffer domestic violence, including so-called "honor killings," behind a societal cloak of silence. Laws often restrict women's personal liberties, for example by giving them lesser status than their husbands in divorce proceedings, and requiring the permission of a husband or father to work, travel or borrow from a bank...
...great water-cooler debates currently raging among intelligence-watchers is whether self-described spy Omar Nasiri is the real deal, or if his cloak-and-dagger tale of infiltrating al-Qaeda is an unverifiable get-rich-quick scam. According to his new book, Inside the Jihad: My Life With Al Qaeda, A Spy's Story, the Moroccan-born author (who uses Nasiri as a pseudonym) says he spent nearly seven years leading a dangerous double life as an informer for European intelligence services on the activities of his brothers-in-jihad, including vivid detail of combat and explosives training...
That was 1979 and Pope John Paul II. But when Benedict XVI travels to Turkey next week on his first visit to a Muslim country since becoming Pope last year, he is unlikely to cloak himself in a downy banner of brotherhood, the way his predecessor did 27 years ago. Instead, Benedict, 79, will arrive carrying a different reputation: that of a hard-knuckle intellect with a taste for blunt talk and interreligious confrontation. Just 19 months into his tenure, the Pope has become as much a moral lightning rod as a theologian; suddenly, when he speaks, the whole world...
...current Bush Administration did the reverse in 2003 by using realist rhetoric about security interests (remember those WMD?) to cloak what was, more broadly, a neo-Wilsonian mission of spreading democracy. The two primary realists in the Bush court, Colin Powell and Brent Scowcroft, were the most prominent castoffs by the end of the first term. And Condoleezza Rice, for years a sophisticated realist thinker in the mold of her mentor Scowcroft, underwent a post-9/11 conversion to the belief that there was no longer a useful distinction between democracy-crusading idealism and national-security realism...