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What they're actually talking about is the emergence of the liberal
excuse for imperialism, "humanitarian intervention," the
construction of which became necessary after the disappearance of
the Communist Menace. After various tryouts, it was fully unveiled
in Clinton's attack on Serbia.<br>
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It's absurd of course for academics to be arguing about <i>when </i>"today’s
human rights movement emerged 'seemingly from nowhere'” without
mentioning liberal interventionism. What do they think the Carr
Center's <i>for</i>?<br>
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On 9/26/10 1:10 PM, David Green wrote:
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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>
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