Comments on: Realism Gone Awry http://themoderatevoice.com/16941/realism-gone-awry/ An Internet hub for moderates, centrists, and independents, with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, and right Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:25:37 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/16941/realism-gone-awry/comment-page-1/#comment-149124 DLS Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:43:20 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/foreign-policy/16941/realism-gone-awry/#comment-149124 "What happened to the notion of fighting AIDS merely because it’s an extremely pressing moral and humanitarian issue?"<br><br>Nothing. That has been there and the USA has been at the forefront of progress on AIDS (notwithstanding the ranting of often scummy activists, who demanded a responsibility-and-risk-free instant solution to a novel, mysterious problem) since the 1980s.<br><br>It's not as if the USA or the West are, by definition, compelled to engage in the superhuman whenever there's something wrong in the world (pee-cee uber alles). “What happened to the notion of fighting AIDS merely because it’s an extremely pressing moral and humanitarian issue?”

Nothing. That has been there and the USA has been at the forefront of progress on AIDS (notwithstanding the ranting of often scummy activists, who demanded a responsibility-and-risk-free instant solution to a novel, mysterious problem) since the 1980s.

It's not as if the USA or the West are, by definition, compelled to engage in the superhuman whenever there's something wrong in the world (pee-cee uber alles).

]]> By: EEllis http://themoderatevoice.com/16941/realism-gone-awry/comment-page-1/#comment-149123 EEllis Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:00:53 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/foreign-policy/16941/realism-gone-awry/#comment-149123 Now people not only need to do the "right" thing they must also have the "right" reason for doing so and go about it in the "right" way. Now people not only need to do the “right” thing they must also have the “right” reason for doing so and go about it in the “right” way.

]]> By: tutakai http://themoderatevoice.com/16941/realism-gone-awry/comment-page-1/#comment-149122 tutakai Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:27:39 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/foreign-policy/16941/realism-gone-awry/#comment-149122 Jeb, as I believe you are an international relations student at some level, you might be interested in research by Buzan, who demonstrates how issues get linked with "security" (a process he calls "securitization") as a way of increasing their rhetorical and political power and ability to gain resources. Jeb, as I believe you are an international relations student at some level, you might be interested in research by Buzan, who demonstrates how issues get linked with “security” (a process he calls “securitization”) as a way of increasing their rhetorical and political power and ability to gain resources.

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