Ex-UN chief: America has 'lost its moral compass'

The United States has lost its moral compass and fallen out of step with the rest of the world in the wake of September 11, the former United Nations human rights commissioner warned tonight.

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Highlighting the US’s opposition last week to the creation of a new UN Human Rights Council, Mrs Robinson said: "It illustrates the seismic shift which has taken place in the relation of the US to global rule of law issues. Today, the US no longer leads, but is too often seen merely to march out of step with the rest of the world."

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"Misuse of language has also led to Orwellian euphemisms, so that ’coercive interrogation’ is used instead of torture, or cruel and inhuman treatment; kidnapping becomes ’extraordinary rendition’," she said.

The former Irish leader disputed the argument that the post 9/11 world meant that human rights could be curtailed in the name of security. This would lead to democracies "losing the moral high ground", she said.




http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2095001,00.html

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She seems to be giving voice to what many around the world are feeling.

We swallowed the compass

We're No. 1 in moral compassness!

/facetiousness

"compassness". sheesh!

:hi:

we know DAMN WELL that the assh*les in power today are evil.

Sleepless nights. Between asking why countless times to literal tears and everyone I know or bang into are long, long past the boiling point of fed-up, Mrs. Robinson is right.

The world "use" to look-up to us. I was so damn proud. Barely recall those feelings now because the feelings are filled with anger, despair, disgust and hopelessness.

that also has China, Iran and the Sudan in it, I would pass too.

Although, its not like we really deserve to be on it either.