RE: Rights to Remember (Harold Hongju Koh)

2003-12-03 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- "Miller, Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John! Where have you been? :) > > Speaking of The Economist, anyone read Foreign > Policy? Used to, but it "fell to the dark side" when they reformatted a few years ago, and I stopped, except when I can pick it up for free on the Delta Shuttl

RE: Rights to Remember (Harold Hongju Koh)

2003-11-26 Thread Reggie Bautista
Andrew Medvedev wrote: Re: Koh's article in the economist from a couple of weeks ago ... [snip] Lastly, this administration has been notoriously cavalier about how it presents its actions to the world. I personally think this administration has been cavalier about how it presents its actions to its

RE: Rights to Remember (Harold Hongju Koh)

2003-11-25 Thread Miller, Jeffrey
John! Where have you been? :) Speaking of The Economist, anyone read Foreign Policy? > First, I hope that it is self-evident to everyone here that > when Mr. Hoh writes that the US has moved from being the most > visible supporter of international human rights to, and I > quote, "its most vi

RE: Rights to Remember (Harold Hongju Koh)

2003-11-24 Thread Andrew Medvedev
D] Subject: Re: Rights to Remember (Harold Hongju Koh) I think that I have as much respect for _The Economist_, which I read religiously each week, as anyone on this List - but I must admit that I was embarassed to read this piece a week or two ago. It is not so much that _The Economist_ is printi

Re: Rights to Remember (Harold Hongju Koh)

2003-11-24 Thread Russell Chapman
John D. Giorgis wrote: In a world population by such nations as the DPRK, the People's Republic of China, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Turkmenistan, and Zimbabwe - to call *the United States* the most visible human rights outlier should leave everyone absolutely speechless. But it

Re: Rights to Remember (Harold Hongju Koh)

2003-11-23 Thread Doug Pensinger
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 20:57:38 -0500, John D. Giorgis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 05:34 PM 11/23/2003 -0800 Doug Pensinger wrote: What I'm really afraid of is that the president will use his power to bend the will of the electorate in an unethical manner or to conduct a fraudulent election. If

Re: Rights to Remember (Harold Hongju Koh)

2003-11-23 Thread John D. Giorgis
I think that I have as much respect for _The Economist_, which I read religiously each week, as anyone on this List - but I must admit that I was embarassed to read this piece a week or two ago. It is not so much that _The Economist_ is printing a critique of the Bush Administraiton's policies on

Re: Rights to Remember (Harold Hongju Koh)

2003-11-23 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 05:34 PM 11/23/2003 -0800 Doug Pensinger wrote: >What I'm really afraid of is that the president will use his power to bend >the will of the electorate in an unethical manner or to conduct a >fraudulent election. If some of you perceive this as unduly alarmist, >well, perhaps you are correct

Re: Rights to Remember (Harold Hongju Koh)

2003-11-23 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Doug Pensinger wrote: > > I hope that American's come > to the realization that this administration does not represent their > ideals and that they reject a second term. > A read a quote by someone [probably famous, but I don't remember who said it], that Democracy wasn't good for electing good pe

Re: Rights to Remember (Harold Hongju Koh)

2003-11-23 Thread Doug Pensinger
Erik Reuter wrote: Rights to remember Good article, Erik, thanks for posting it. Bush's America is a caricature - no - a perversion of the country built by 227 some odd years of democracy and freedom. I hope that American's come to the realization that this administration does not represent t