<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><DIV><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/books/review/Cooper-t.html?ref=books">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/books/review/Cooper-t.html?ref=books</A></DIV>
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<DIV>One would have to look far and wide for an assertion more absurd than this one:</DIV>
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<DIV>"Today’s human rights movement emerged “seemingly from nowhere,” Moyn says, as a depoliticized, moral response to disillusionment with revolutionary political projects, specifically the anticolonial independence struggles of the 1950s and ’60s. Moyn credibly juxtaposes the hopes placed in a new internationalist “utopia” of human rights against the failure of national self-determination to guarantee human dignity."</DIV>
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<DIV>Of course, such "failures" were in many cases the result of American opposition to self-determination. The notion of "human rights" has been selectively used to attack people we don't like.</DIV>
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<DIV>DG</DIV></div><br>
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