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U.S. Fails in Human Rights RolePosted on Jan 14, 2009
It is unsurprising that a group like Human Rights Watch has condemned the Bush government for jettisoning the U.S. role as a defender of global human rights: Numerous examples—Guantanamo, gay marriage, Iraq, etc.—accentuate this failure. Obama has said that closing Guantanamo Bay is a “priority.”
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By Ed, January 15 at 12:51 am #
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The United States has never had any moral authority with respect to human rights. For my generation, that was just cold war propaganda. The United States, to this day, continues killing people for property, wealth, money.
Report thisBy TAO Walker, January 14 at 6:51 pm #
“All the worlds’s a stage,....” and now the U.S. has gone and muffed it’s lines in its “....role as a defender of global human rights:....” “ROLE….”?! Good thing the “reviewers” don’t get too specific here about who the offending “dramatis personae” are here….wouldn’t want to embarrass the thin-skinned, and frightfully reactionary, americanpeople.
This old Savage suggestes respectfully that until the domesticated peoples learn to quit bloviating about the very problematical pickle they’re all in, and actually discuss it sensibly and define it accurately, they haven’t a chance in Hell of ever coming effectively to-grips with any of it. Their ongoing obsessions with all this kid-stuff are not going to result in anything but their sudden EXIT….from the “scene” of their final “flop.”
HokaHey!
Report thisBy jr., January 14 at 5:42 pm #
The united nations is an nice idea, but obviously powerless when needed most.
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