Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nkomo's logic seemed odd, the moral that Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith drew from the episode was only a bit less strained. He charged that the U.S. and Britain were in part responsible for the RH-827 tragedy because they encouraged terrorism by their failure to support the Smith-led government. The reaction of Co-Minister of Transport James Chikerema, a former guerrilla leader, was more straightforward. Said he: "It is a tragedy so serious that if it is established again that Nkomo's people did it, Nkomo should not weep if we retaliate...
...China motivated primarily by moral considerations. Pol Pot's reported massacre of his potential opponents was probably of less concern to Hanoi than the inconvenience of having a Chinese supported government on its border. The Vietnamese puppet regime is no more motivated by humanitarian concerns that was Pol Pot's government...
...American officials that the U.S. has a political and economic stake in Iran that it will lose entirely if it refused to talk with the Iranian government. And beyond the pragmatic considerations of ensuring the steady flow of Iranian oil into the United States, any larger political and moral influence would be sacrificed if the U.S. witheld recognition of any nation solely because it objects to the country's political practices...
This is not to say that moral considerations should not enter into the making of foreign policy. But moral considerations, such as Carter's vaunted human rights policy, must be defined solely as an end, not a means, of U.S. foreign policy. Expressions of concern for human rights violations should not be used as a lever designed to knock a government off balance or to make short-term political capital. Too often the United States has callously and inconsistently used its human rights policy as a geopolitical bargaining chip without regard for genuine human suffering in many nations...
...Cambodia card, and no control over a game in which it is vitally interested. That lack of control will be a constant for many years to come--until the United States builds up the complex of ties and relations that will permit it to articulate its political goals and moral aspirations to the nations of Southeast Asia. And, given America's bleak record in the region, it will take far longer for those nations to care to listen...