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Questions from the Audience
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| 1. Ms. Slaughter, your analogy to Nuremberg has a fatal flaw in that Nuremberg occurred after outright victory. There's a situation that could arise where we could capture some terrorists next month and be invading Iraq in February. How do you reconcile the need for security and the need for military capabilities to drive a process with the imperative of having some sense of justice? |
| 2. This is perhaps a technical question about the international court, but what I'm hearing is that one of the safeguards is that first the nation of the accused has to try them. What if, for example, the accused is Henry Kissinger or Ariel Sharon. Is it likely that their nation is going to indict them and try them, or isn't it going to automatically default into an international court situation. Is that really a safeguard? |
| 3. It seems to me it's a very interesting discussion, but it's a very Western discussion. What we're talking about are just extensions of our culture to common cultures and what Bin Laden, or what the Muslim view seems to be, is this is going to be a clash of them against us, totally different cultures. How do you reconcile what we're saying here to the current war that we're in? |
| 4. How can Harvard better extend its multitude of educational capabilities to the decision makers in Washington? |
| 5. Some people in Washington oppose the idea of making American soldiers and diplomats subject to an international agreement, so we don't have as much moral authority, in this or in some other human rights issues. Our policy looks the other way in China because it's important economically. Looks the other way in Saudi Arabia. We generally feel pretty good about ourselves, but there is another school that holds not just a lack of information, but a whole other view. |
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6. I gather Father, that when you were talking about religion and governments, you're talking about everyone on this side of Sam Huntington's line or you would not have said what you said about Saudi Arabia and other countries. Secondly, when we talked about unilateral vs. multilateral views, under the multilateral approach, you'll take into account the views of Saudi Arabia on women's rights, for example, before the U.S. decided to push its agenda. Back to Panel Discussion |
