"Human Rights are actually human failures... "
ASEAN nations unveil a landmark human rights watchdog this week, but critics charge that it will be both toothless and include in its membership one of the world's worst human rights offenders - military-ruled Myanmar. And what's wrong with including Myanmar, it can't try to improve itself ? The fates of Burma, Tibet, or Darfur is of little importance to the U.S. or the world in general. These are human failures--local political disasters for those populations. The U.S. can not truly be expected to right such wrongs, However, there is pressure to leave Iraq or Afghanistan/ Pakistan, but is there staggering solidarity for efforts to overthrow the likes of Saddam, Castro, Kim..? Where is the International World Order that would condemn such evil and put some teeth behind it ? But there is no such political consensus.
Instead we have international organizations that wet themselves over waterboarding one too many times. Securing human rights has a staggering human cost, and as we've learned in the last decade, the effort to secure these rights has to come from within. Is one Iraqi civilian's life worth Saddam's? It's for that Iraqi to decide, not for us. No country is untainted by moral failure nor unstained by innocent blood. But only the few that maintain strong principles of individual freedom can alter their own course and lead by example, instead of by force. The so-called Burma-problem has reached its final chapter. This is a matter for the people of Myanmar to decide. America can remain to champion liberty but it need not offer up blood or treasure. There will be an "election" in Myanmar ( there was an election in 1990 and it was free and fair, remember ? )and a new government will take the administration. Will this story have a happy ending or will it be spoiled ?
Instead we have international organizations that wet themselves over waterboarding one too many times. Securing human rights has a staggering human cost, and as we've learned in the last decade, the effort to secure these rights has to come from within. Is one Iraqi civilian's life worth Saddam's? It's for that Iraqi to decide, not for us. No country is untainted by moral failure nor unstained by innocent blood. But only the few that maintain strong principles of individual freedom can alter their own course and lead by example, instead of by force. The so-called Burma-problem has reached its final chapter. This is a matter for the people of Myanmar to decide. America can remain to champion liberty but it need not offer up blood or treasure. There will be an "election" in Myanmar ( there was an election in 1990 and it was free and fair, remember ? )and a new government will take the administration. Will this story have a happy ending or will it be spoiled ?
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