On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 05:06:39PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote: > The United States can and should act in a manner consistant with > promoting human rights around the world. I certainly agree that the > government of the United States has a moral obligation to ensure that > it does not directly deny human rights through its own actions.
Then you agree that we shouldn't hold non-Americans without just cause and should not try them in secret military tribunals? We shouldn't deny human rights to non-Americans simply because they aren't American? > Finally, I think Gautam made a valid distinction between > Constitutional rights and what the goverment ought to do. For > example, would have been morally wrong but Constitutional for the US > to have A-bombed the world into submission in the early post-WWII > years. If you note his posts, he did state that he has strong > opinions that the US should foster human rights, its just that it is > not required by the Constitution. I'm having a hard time following your arguments. Of course I noted that he said that. I quoted him saying that and replied to it. I don't understand your sentence "For example, ..." -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.com/
