The promotion of human rights cannot be about exhortation alone. At times, it must be coupled with painstaking diplomacy. I know that engagement with repressive regimes lacks the satisfying purity of indignation. But I also know that sanctions without outreach — condemnation without discussion — can carry forward only a crippling status quo. No repressive regime can move down a new path unless it has the choice of an open door.
BARACK OBAMA, Nobel Lecture, Dec. 10, 2009
“Like, for example, a door that opens into a uranium enrichment facility.”
The promotion of human rights cannot be about
exhortationextortion alone.TOTUS misspelled it.
Thanks to that Obama quote, which was essentially “You can’t always talk, sometimes you have to talk” – I do believe Obama’s theme song should be “Yackety Yak, Don’t Talk Back.”
Here is the link, for those of you that are curious and younger than dirt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UnPzp2lmNk&list=RD9xAi80ShG0I
Thanks to that Obama quote, which was essentially “You can’t always talk, sometimes you have to talk” – I do believe Obama’s theme song should be “Yackety Yak, Don’t Talk Back.”
Here is the link, for those of you that are curious and younger than dirt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xAi80ShG0I
argh! sorry everybody
Oppo’s NBC-prompted report on this Obama quote:
“The promotion of . . . a crippling status quo. . . . repressive regime.”