Word: moral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didn't work. And inevitably, as we've seen time and time again--in President Carter's handling of the Iranian hostage crisis, for example--a failed strategy becomes a moral wrong...
...center has grown from a small group of people whose services were mostly limited to immigration procedures to a staff of nearly 60, mostly volunteers, which now also provides social and educational programs. The social services program assists refugees in finding housing, employment, medical service and provides moral support as they adjust to a new life in the Boston area...
However, this deferment theory eliminates America's ability to use its own morals, interest, and considerable expertise in determining its own policies. We did not reflexively give military aid to anti-Sandinista rebels in Nicaragua because they asked for it. In fact, many people overrode the Contra sentiment, claiming that there were more effective and more moral ways to achieve much-needed reform in this repressive Central American country...
...Blacks want U.S. disinvestment as a means to destabilize the country and increase the chance for revolution, then the U.S. must seriously consider whether this goal is really the best or most moral action we can take. We have no assurance that a revolution would produce a democratic government in South Africa. Instead we could find South Africa under a new name with an equally repressive regime...
...Crystal ends his letter on a note of high pomposity by saying, "I hear the objections: Where might [the protestors] argument take us tomorrow? To this I answer: What is happening today?" By this formulation, Mr. Crystal, assuming that he and those who agree with him already possess the moral high ground, absolves the protestors' actions because of what he sees as the special immediate circumstances. One wonders if Mr. Crystal would see such extenuating circumstances if the Conservative Club were to shout down or physically abuse a Sandinista speaker in anything approaching the way of the anti-contra protesters...