Word: moralisms
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...Colosseum, St. Paul's Cathedral in London and the Trocadéro buildings in Paris. They've figured out how to connect with people - and changed the political weather in many countries. How can that be applied to the slog of regular politics, with budgets and targets and murkier moral choices? Changing the political weather in many countries is exactly what Tony Blair wants to do in the wake of the collapse of the European constitution. In a blizzard of speeches, op-eds and interviews in Europe, he's been trying to reach around the punch-drunk institutions of Brussels...
...intense reaction shows that for Sarkozy, "the threat comes from Chirac's people, not the National Front." But it's with Chirac's people that Sarkozy governs. "He knows that his brand of economic liberalism isn't popular in France, so he's compensating with a dose of moral conservativism," says Stéphane Rozès, director of the French polling firm CSA Opinion. "But he can't go much further in that direction without having to choose between the government and his own ambitions...
...from Marcos; this turned into the potent force now known as People Power. Following Marcos' ouster, Sin was hailed as a hero-and he enjoyed more power than ever before, inevitably controversial in a country with a 300-year history of Spanish friars who ruled towns and villages. His moral authority prevented Philippine governments from promoting family planning, and as a result, the country's population growth rate is the highest in Asia, particularly among the poor. He helped engineer a second People Power revolt in 2001, which overthrew Joseph Estrada. Many of his obituaries pointed out that...
...Arroyo, I had dinner in Manila with the firm's co-founder, a Westerner who has done business in the Philippines for 30 years and who personally pays for the education of 21 local kids. I was taken aback by how emotional he was about what he called the "moral obligation to invest" in the country. "These people are trying to find a way out," he said. "You just have to give them the chance. They've given up on the idea of something changing at the top. But money gives them hope for the future. It gives them freedom...
...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 by victimizing innocent people. 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...