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...value is not in his actual comments since they’re morally problematic,” Heilman said. “Rather, it points to a necessary reexamination of the Geneva Convention” and how the convention’s concept of collective punishment applies to the Middle East...
...father flubbed in the Gulf War. But lately, that reassuring example has been obscured by a blizzard of Bush words and deeds that strike many Europeans as tone-deaf or worse: lumping North Korea, Iran and Iraq in a (speechwriter-coined) "axis of evil"; the disdain for the Geneva Conventions shown in the early treatment of prisoners at Camp X-Ray; his repudiation of the Kyoto climate accords in favor of voluntary compliance by U.S. industry; a refusal to lean on Israel, or even to engage deeply in the peace process, for six months as violence has soared...
...democracy it is no good for the people not to publicly deal with that fact and to hypocritically condemn such practices. Democracies have to get their “hands dirty” according to Dershowitz, who took a few more seconds to leap over the Constitution, the Geneva Accords, the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man, and any other treaty outlawing torture. And Dershowitz was merciful too—after all, is not torture less harmful than death? Dershowitz mentioned at that very moment he was suffering severe pain as a result of kidney stones...
...press sometimes depicts Durão Barroso as having built a career on the luck of being in the right place at the right time. He bristles at this: "I was the top law student in my year. Surely because I was lucky. I did a master's in Geneva, and scored the best results ever. Of course, I was lucky. I was a member of the government of Anibal Cavaco Silva when I was 29. Surely because I was lucky. At 36 I was one of the youngest Foreign Ministers ever in Europe. Once again, lucky. I think...
...Switzerland never joined before? When the organization first came to Geneva in 1946, postwar fear of communism was rife and the cautious Swiss decided to stay outside. In a 1986 referendum, 76% of voters rejected membership; distrust of the Soviets, as well as political squabbles between superpowers, was blamed for the defeat. Today, Nordmann says, "the international environment is different and the U.N is different. We can no longer hide behind the shield of neutrality...