Re: Rethinking US Policies in the Middle East
- From: anthony_ravlich@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 9 Jan 2006 12:59:43 -0800
It was an interesting story but what was missing is the need for the US
to ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights and when Bush speaks of freedom and democracy he also needs to
add social justice. I am fed up with a situation where only the global
elites get freedom and democracy while the rest of us have to live with
social injustice and powerlessness. Surely civil and political rights
are for everybody - can any idiot believe that nearly half the world
pop living on less than $2 per day can have civil and political rights.
The question that needs to be debated by the western intellectual elite
is whether civil and politic rights are for everyone or just the elite.
Just putting in the necessary infrastructure - courts, polling booths
etc - does not mean people have freedom and democracy in reality. How
stupid can you get! - doesn't the US realise the poor want very little
- just to show that there is genuine hope would simmer the situation
down considerably. But that's the trouble with the elite they are so
tied to their class they cannot think outside the square - they are
middle class, university trained, professionals who are none the less
so far removed from the real world (embedded!) that what they do can
never be more than self-interested and mediocre. I see no leaders in
the West or organisations run by the West and that includes the UN who
are capable of making the morally right yet doable decisions. Anthony
Ravlich, Chairperson, Human Rights Council Inc., Auckland, New Zealand.
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