Elie Wiesel’s sad, glib justification for the killing of
children
One of the most depressing aspects of the recent
killing of Osama bin Laden is the manner in which it seems to have
warped moral judgments. Reading through the Newsweek account of what
had happened, and the wider dimensions of the incident, I came
across the following claim by Elie Wiesel, who was awarded the Nobel
Prize for his part in bringing those responsible for the Holocaust
to justice.
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Ideals betrayed
The preamble to the United Nations Charter
expresses the very highest ideals that countries might live by as
guidelines for achieving world peace: tolerance for others,
universal human rights, economic and social advancement for all. The
preamble set the intention for all countries to rise together in
harmony as the world recovered from the devastation of two World
Wars.
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‘The demon is not as terrifying as we may imagine’
“It was the foreign policy of India since the
late 1990s to accept that the Tiger outfit as a terrorist
organization and that the Sri Lankan government cannot avoid waging
a war with that organization. They also held the view that moral
support should be provided to Sri Lanka to find a political solution
to provide powers to the Tamil people.
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