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...that the latter are more tolerable, but the distinction is meaningless to the victims. When asked about Israel's abuses of Palestinians' human rights, Sharansky accused Amnesty International of ignoring violations by terrorist organizations. Well, two wrongs don't make a right. Raymond Totah Fallbrook, California, U.S. Where is mankind supposed to turn to find the noble concept of moral clarity that Sharansky says Amnesty International lacks? The Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo scandals have spoiled whatever claim the U.S. had to moral values. Israel and America are not champions of moral clarity. Both have been attacked, and both...
...tenets of the Roman Catholic Church reverberate with two riveting forms of drama: the mystery play and the horror show. The complementary doctrines of faith and expiation set the tone for an ageold debate. To the faithful, the church is a magisterial edifice built on the miracle of mankind's redemption by a loving God made flesh. To the cynical atheist, it is a cult based on transcendental cannibalism: the belief that one can achieve salvation by literally consuming God in the form of the Eucharist. To the agnostic outsider, with neither grace nor grudges, the church is an elaborately...
...question is whether the President is willing to negotiate on his Strategic Defense Initiative, better known as Star Wars. This is the kind of issue that puts the two sides of Reagan's persona at conflict. The visionary side sees SDI as a salvation for mankind, a foolproof way of rendering the nuclear threat impotent. The pragmatist in the President may realize that some sort of compromise on SDI, perhaps an agreement to forgo its development and deployment phases for a time, might be the only way of winning Soviet agreement to deep cuts in the mounting arsenals of offensive...
...come on, eyeball to lens, was in 1972, when Richard Nixon appeared. Reagan, the Great Communicator, made his plea "to try to reduce the suspicions and mistrust between us," then tried a little shaky Russian: "Let us look forward to a future of chistoye nyebo [clear sky] for all mankind...
...Where is mankind supposed to turn to find the noble concept of moral clarity that Sharansky says Amnesty International lacks? The Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo scandals have spoiled whatever claim the U.S. had to moral values. Israel and America are not champions of moral clarity. Both have been attacked, and both have retaliated. Sharansky also complained of the moral equivalence that Amnesty's reports seem to confer on both terrorist regimes and democratic societies. There may be no moral equivalence between a terrorist attack and a retaliation, but let's at least be honest about it. Both are atrocities...