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...there is a glaring exception. It's a basic presidential responsibility, but we sometimes overlook it or think of it as an economic or technical matter rather than a profound moral one. In three short years, this President has so ramped up government spending that he has turned a fiscal surplus into a huge and mounting debt. Far from taking responsibility for the nation's finances, the President has shirked basic housekeeping and foisted crippling debt on the next generation. If a President is in some sense the father of an extended family, Bush is fast becoming a deadbeat...
...increasingly violent situation in Iraq [Aug. 18-25]: Although U.S. President George W. Bush and his close ally British Prime Minister Tony Blair have fallen under heavy criticism over whether they had sufficient evidence to go to war with Iraq, I strongly believe they were right on moral grounds. The government of Saddam Hussein had enslaved and tortured the people of Iraq for more than 27 years. But the U.S. needs to guarantee the safety of cooperative Iraqis who provide information on the whereabouts of Saddam or his agents. Ovie Akus Lagos...
Practical considerations of effort and funding pale in comparison to the moral imperative that our society prevent these terrible injustices from happening in its name for the sake of “correction.” If criminal justice is to be left to prison gangs and sexual predators, let us say so, if not, let us prevent...
...released 82 days later under the pressure from the U.S. government and international human rights groups as part of a diplomatic deal. Although I have physically escaped totalitarianism’s shadow, China’s new leadership continues to stall political reform, and I have the moral responsibility to continue devoting myself to promoting democratic reform. Despite the appalling experience of prison, I do not regret what I did. I am proud to have righteously challenged China’s totalitarianism, and I cannot and will not remain only an office-bound visiting scholar at Harvard...
Okhotin said he felt it was his moral duty to appeal the guilty verdict, even though it meant possibly delaying his return to Harvard for another semester...