Word: moralizers
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...pressing American national interest to end the war in Bosnia that threatened to sunder the Atlantic alliance. To reach that goal, Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. negotiator, enlisted the support of Slobodan Milosevic. The Serb leader is a monster who is currently standing trial in the Hague for war crimes. Moral clarity, presumably, would have suggested that the U.S. follow some other course. And it is true that Bosnia today is not Kansas. But, as Holbrooke says, and is entitled to say, "the war is over...
...Moral clarity in foreign policy is a virtue, as all but the most cynical, superior Europeans would concede. The blunt language that Bush used after Sept. 11 sent a message, and it was heeded. Countries like Pakistan and Yemen were left in no doubt as to where their interests lay, and they acted accordingly. But in the muddled, shades-of-gray world of great-power politics, neither moralism nor clarity can ever be enough. That lesson the Bush Administration has now learned. Pity about Chechnya...
That said, everyone involved in an experiment has the duty to put the subjects' interests first. Says Duke's Sugarman: "The moral responsibility for the protection of patients lies with the investigator, the sponsors, the people who carry out the research: nurses, assistants, technicians, research pharmacists. You can't just say, 'The IRB said...
...Church was just looking to avoid scandal by putting up with Shanley, because he already was a scandal. In 1978 he was present at the founding meeting of the North American Man-Boy Love Association. He was quoted in GaysWeek, a short-lived New York publication, as questioning the morality of pedophilia laws, praising the "deep love" possible in a man-boy relationship and bemoaning the pain that moral condemnation of such liaisons can cause youngsters. "We have our convictions upside down, if we are truly concerned with boys," he said. "The 'cure' does far more damage." This...
...offensive in the Jenin refugee camp seemed certain to jeopardize peace efforts, despite Israeli assurances that the operation was aimed at rooting out potential suicide bombers. Describing conditions after the two-week siege as "horrifying beyond belief," U.N. Middle East envoy Terje Roed-Larson said Israel had "lost all moral ground" in the conflict. But U.S. President George W. Bush defended Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as a "man of peace," saying Israel was meeting a timetable to pull back from Palestinian territories. With the army still encircling West Bank towns, Yasser Arafat's Ramallah compound and Bethlehem's Church...