Word: moralizations
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...make people forget that he didn't go to war himself, Bush states that his job is to be a "decision maker," as if to say that that's all the country needs in its President. If Bush wins, it will prove once again that politics is not moral. Pascal Gendreau Paris Brink of Destruction After reading Simon Robinson's World Watch item "Slow Going in Darfur" [Sept. 6], I was very discouraged that the international community continues to balk on responding to the crisis in Sudan. One would think that after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, we would have...
...blindingly clear that judges have no greater capacity than the rest of us to decide what is moral...
...resolve” in the War on Terror, but I prefer to call it “McCarthyism.” Certainly the safety of our nation should be regarded as a top priority, but when do we consider the preservation of human dignity and the moral core of our country? Evidently, not after we’ve held people without charge in a base in Cuba for years without counsel; not after we torture prisoners held without charge in a country that we occupy; not after we watch our rights of privacy erode when we take a book from...
...dissuade Putin from veering Russia off the path to liberal democracy. Bush’s post-9/11 record on civil liberties hardly gives him the credibility to criticize another nation’s sacrifices in the name of security. Even if the president did have the moral authority to rally the world’s democracies, it is not clear most Americans would care to see him do it. After Putin’s most blatant power-grab yet, the threat of de-democratization in Eastern Europe will likely continue to seem remote to an American public used...
...army. Some militant organizations now allied to bin Laden were once clandestinely funded and supported by Pakistan's spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), to wage war in Afghanistan and Indian-controlled Kashmir. (In the case of the Kashmir conflict, Pakistan has always denied giving anything but moral support to the cause of Kashmiri self-determination, but militants who have fought there insist they had support from the military.) And when young Pakistanis were recruited for fighting in either Afghanistan or Kashmir, they were pumped up with the promise of serving in a holy war to free fellow Muslims...