Word: moralizers
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...work may gain momentum with this week's conference. Clearer data could come within a year or two with both countries cooperating. If scientists confirm the wartime defoliation program made millions sick, the U.S. might finally be shamed into giving compensation. "America caused this problem, so it should take moral responsibility," Ngoc says, cradling his daughter. Unfortunately morality?like science?often mixes poorly with politics...
First, George W. Bush twitted Europeans' environmental correctness by deciding to let the United States sit out the Kyoto treaty on global warming. Then he offended their sophisticated moral sensibilities with his plainspoken bluster about "the axis of evil." But last week, U.S. unilateralism struck an especially sensitive part of Europeans' anatomy: their pocket books. In a decision that seems directly to contradict the free-market gospel that is America's chief political export, Bush imposed protectionist tariffs of 8% to 30% on foreign steel...
...tariffs on steel imports, which violate trade rules, to score domestic political points - even though Bush's approval ratings are still stratospheric. The tariff move, on top of Bush's other unilateral steps, "is a huge, huge, huge error," says a British official, because it undercuts U.S. moral leadership just as Bush needs it to draw allies to an unpopular fight...
...fiftieth reunion approaches, I am saddened, but not really surprised, to see that Harvard continues to be a moral and political backwater...
...column “Albert Speer at Harvard” was insulting and morally obscene. To compare the Cuban regime with that of the Nazis—or even with that of Stalin’s Soviet Union—is to show the worst kind of specious moral equivalence...