-Caveat Lector- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 12:51:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Party of Citizens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [UNIVERSALHUMANRIGHTS] Onward Christian Soldiers
Further to your post below on the moral superiority of the US soldier, I retitled this as above. Imagine how much more superior they would be if they were "Christian soldiers" representing the "salt and light" of the planet! Maybe religion racketeers like those at Falwell's "Liberty University" can tell us. Z CITIZENS' COMPLAINT TO UNHCHR against GOVERNMENTS of CANADA, BC, VANCOUVER for TORTURE, FORCED LABOUR, DISCONTINUING NECESSARIES OF LIFE: ***** <http://www.geocities.com/universalhumanrightscanada> ****** ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 12:00:09 -0600 From: IRC Communications <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [UNIVERSALHUMANRIGHTS] FPIF News | America's Moral 'Exceptionalism' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What's New at FPIF "Working to make the U.S. a more responsible global leader and partner" http://www.fpif.org/ May 20, 2004 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Introducing a new commentary from Foreign Policy In Focus Prisoner Abuse Calls Into Question America's Position of Moral 'Exceptionalism' By Jim Lobe "The American soldier," then-Secretary of State Elihu Root said in 1899 as the United States first emerged as a global power, is "different from all other soldiers of all other countries since the world began." "He is the advance guard of liberty and justice, of law and order and of peace and happiness." But as evidence of abuse by U.S. military personnel continues to surface, so do questions about America's oft-revisited concept of itself as a nation called by Providence to spread liberty around the world. As the vanguard of that moral superiority, the U.S. soldier, "different from all other soldiers from all other countries since the world began," has always been expected to embody the country's extraordinary goodness. That's what makes the photos from Abu Ghraib so shocking. They put into question the whole notion of U.S. exceptionalism, just as similar photos of the victims of the My Lai massacre, of U.S. troops setting fire to peasants' huts with their Zippo lighters, and of a terrified young girl burned by napalm running naked down a highway helped turn the nation against the Vietnam War and military intervention 35 years ago. Jim Lobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is a political analyst with Foreign Policy in Focus (online at www.fpif.org). He also writes regularly for Inter Press Service.) See new FPIF commentary online at: http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2004/0405moralex.html With printer friendly PDF version at: http://www.fpif.org/pdf/gac/0405moralex.pdf For more analysis by Jim Lobe from Foreign Policy in Focus: Bush Administration Faces Growing Chaos in Iraq While Some Plan Expansion of War (January 29, 2004) http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2004/0401chaos.html The Strong Must Rule the Weak: A Philosopher for an Empire (May 12, 2003) http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2003/0305strauss.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Distributed by FPIF:"A Think Tank Without Walls," a joint program of Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC) and Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). For more information, visit www.fpif.org. 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