Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richard Neville writes in the New York Times that not the moral but the social implications of Hustler are troubling the media establishment...
...issue is not whether the University and union will ultimately agree on a third party to help mediate their differences. The two sides, while far apart on many issues, still appear willing to negotiate the morale problem, and the union has thus far avoided raising the threat of a work action that could only cloud the dispute even further. Yet the University's apparent reluctance to reach a quick agreement with the union on the preliminary question of a third party to the negotiations creates some doubt as to its willingness to face the important non-salary issues that concern...
...this plunged the U.S. into a dilemma. U.S. foreign policy has always had-and must have-a moral component. But just how moral can a great power be in its foreign policy? Moreover, once such a policy is proclaimed, to what extent can it be modified without becoming capricious? Can America practice selective morality-taking a high moral tone with some nations, while making pragmatic exceptions for others? The Vance statement arbitrarily condemned three countries not only as immoral but as unimportant to boot. To his credit, Vance admitted that there was a strain of hypocrisy in the new policy...
Henry Kissinger sought to avoid this trap by arguing that policy must be based on a mutual self-interest, not on moral approval. Principles could be proclaimed, but any attempt to change conditions in other countries had to be made behind the scenes, if only because sovereign nations cannot allow themselves to be pushed around in public...
...with human rights in our foreign involvements will or should be simple, or that the Carter administration should be expected to reform a tradition of amoral pragmatism overnight. Foreign policy, which deals with so many conflicting commitments and considerations, can never be formulated successfully according to hard and fast moral doctrines. Rather, it is to be hoped that the Carter administration will continue to press the issue of human rights in principle, deal with each case on its own merits, and strive to make public the elements involved in each case so that the American people can judge...