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...many of the struggles around the world, humanitarianism may simply be a Band-Aid and an irrelevance. Rieff quotes Jose-Maria Mendiluce, the UNHCR's first special envoy to the Balkans, as saying, "You don't reply to fascism with relief supplies, and you don't counter ethnic cleansing with reception centers for the displaced." Oxfam called for a cease-fire during the Rwandan genocide, but as an observer pointed out, that would have left half of Rwanda in the hands of those Hutu perpetrating the genocide and thus would have allowed them to finish what they had started...
Even aside from international concerns, Feinerman said China’s treatment of Yang also runs counter to its domestic legal system...
...Still, a nuclear-armed North Korea would appear to be intolerable to Bush doctrine of preemption and "counter-proliferation." The Administration is certainly countering Iraq-skeptics by saying that the North Korean equation shows precisely why action is needed to prevent Saddam acquiring nuclear weapons. The key difference between North Korea and Iraq, according to National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, is that "effective international pressure may have an effect on North Korea." Pyongyang's posture - as erratic and obtuse as it may be - has been driven primarily by the need to end its international isolation. Economic stasis and mass starvation...
Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Ruth R. Wisse, on the other hand, lauded Summers for using his free speech to counter was she deemed harmful speech—namely, last year’s divestment petition...
...politically. Investigators at New York University have already located a malaria-resistance gene, but there's no guarantee that new bugs carrying it would have any evolutionary advantage over the old ones. Besides, parasite-host relationships are notoriously protean; as soon as resistance genes appear, the parasites develop counter-resistance. And there's always the possibility that the experiment could backfire, creating swarms of mutant mosquitoes that are even worse than the ones we have...