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...BERNARD KOUCHNER by Andre Glucksmann...
Among those included are plenty whose importance is a lot more subtle than bin Laden's or the Pope's. Bernard Lewis has been teaching since 1938, yet his theories on the failure of the Islamic world have only lately shifted the thinking of American policymakers. Bernard Kouchner and Samantha Power--one a French doctor, the other a U.S. scholar--have challenged us to understand that a nation's sovereignty does not give it the right to behave abominably inside its borders...
...often a vexing and exceptional leader. No. 1 on France's hit parade of political popularity, an iconoclastic and intermittent minister, Bernard Kouchner was first celebrated for fishing out the boat people who fled Communist Vietnam and for bearing sacks of rice on his ministerial shoulder in Operation Restore Hope in Somalia. Nelson Mandela once whispered to him, "Thanks for intervening in matters that don't concern...
...individual engagement based on a personal obstinacy. "I ran to Biafra," he has said, "because I was too young for Guernica, Auschwitz, Oradour and Setif." He wants to exorcise the great butcheries of humanity. A man of fire, a warrior of peace, Kouchner invented "the duty of international meddling." He favors intervention--peaceful if possible, military if necessary--to stop massacres and those who commit them. In the name of human rights, he approved the U.S. intervention in Iraq: "The No. 1 weapon of mass destruction is Saddam Hussein," he said. He lost loved ones in the attack against...
...before he died. "It confirmed the suffering that I knew about," he says. He has received thousands of letters, all supportive, he says. Public pressure to implement some kind of reform in Humbert's name is strong, but Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin opposes creating a new law. Bernard Kouchner, former French Minister of Health and founder of Doctors Without Borders, has even suggested erecting a statue in honor of Marie Humbert. Perhaps the plaque could quote Vincent: "Do not judge her; what she will have done for me is probably the most beautiful evidence of love in the world...