{"id":129,"date":"2006-10-31T09:28:26","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T14:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weeklyrob.dreamhosters.com\/?p=129"},"modified":"2006-10-31T09:28:26","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T14:28:26","slug":"north-korea-as-human-rights-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"North Korea as Human Rights Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When it turned out that Saddam Hussein wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t on the phone to bin Laden working out a plan to nuke the US, a lot of people shifted their argument for invading Iraq. Namely, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good we went in there, because Saddam was such a bad guy.<\/p>\n

This is interesting, because everyone agrees that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bad guy, and most left-leaning people would tend to want to get bad guys out of office.<\/p>\n

[A friend mentioned yesterday that he saw a show on The History Channel about Saddam. Apparently, it showed Saddam as being a real monster. What amused me was that my friend said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153it was The History Channel, so I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think it had a right-wing bias.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d As if, considering Saddam a monster is a conservative viewpoint, and liberals think he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just sort of like an angry puppy.]<\/p>\n

The point is that if people are bad, and their administration is bad, socially conscious world citizens (and even right-wingers, apparently) should be all for pressuring them to cut it out. And if they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t cut it out, get rid of them. This isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t necessarily true if the administration is merely trying to get nukes.<\/p>\n

Spiegel has an opinion piece suggesting that North Korea be looked at, not as a nuclear crisis, but as a human rights crisis (<\/span>link<\/a>). Pressuring them about nuclear weapons hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t accomplished much, and the U.N. has a specific mandate to stop human rights abuses, so the argument is shift the focus to the human rights issue. <\/span><\/p>\n

I personally doubt it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll work any better, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a better idea than what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve come up with. I.e., nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When it turned out that Saddam Hussein wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t on the phone to bin Laden working out a plan to nuke the US, a lot of people shifted their argument for invading Iraq. Namely, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good we went in there, because Saddam was such a bad guy. This is interesting, because everyone agrees that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}