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...United States is Eurocentric. We are taught that the West is the seat of civilization, that Western society is the most "developed." According to Western "standards" the non-Western world is "barbaric," "primitive," "savage," "native" and "exotic." When they look at Chile and call it underdeveloped, obviously a value-judgement is being made. According to Western standards of development, Chile is underdeveloped. However, according to Third World criteria, the West is "uncivilized...
...that Treasury Secretary G. William Miller's onetime charge, Textron Inc., bribed foreign officials. "I wouldn't pass judgment on whether or not he knew or whether he should have known," Connally said. "That's something that I don't have the information on which to base an informed judgement...
Critics argue that, of all the Republican candidates, Connally has the least right to stand in judgement of another man's past. The question of Connally's guilt in soliciting "illegal gratuities" from the Associate Milk Producers Inc. during his tenure as Treasury Secretary has not yet been laid to rest. A jury found Big John innocent on two counts of accepting $10,000 gifts;, but the other five counts of perjury, for which the Justice Department had documented evidence showing he had lied to a federal grand jury, were dropped as a matter of course. Connally proudly declares...
...story of his inability to see the truth of what his ties with the Pinochet dictatorship mean for the people of Chile is one of naivete, myopia and poignance. It is also the story of a man's deeply flawed moral judgement. In essence, Harberger puts the welfare if the people he knows and loves before the welfare of an entire people; he fails to imagine the suffering of people he does not know...
Like Kraft, however, Keene cannot disguise the confidence he has in his own political handiwork: "People want character, not just the issues. It's an entire judgement of a man... of George Bush...