humanitarian concern Quotes
Kissinger and Nixon had just had a meeting with Golda Meir, the Israeli Prime Minister who had asked them to support the right of Russian Jews to emigrate to Israel. Kissinger himself was Jewish and Nixon’s closest confidant about world affairs. It is not clear whether or not this was another example of Kissinger pandering to Nixon’s prejudices which he did often. See {621138} for Nixon’s reply. This quotation was uncovered in 2010 when more of the Nixon White House tapes were released.
When the British first colonized South Africa, the area they used was akmost uninhabited or very sparcely so. However, some Black tribes (including the Zulus) were moving from the north and themselves were colonizing or annexing the areas to their kingdom. The British were most interested in Trading so did not have large land asperations. The Dutch white Boer Africanners, in contrast, wanted to farm the lands and use the range for their cattle. They wanted the land. The English policy was that there would be friendly relations with the Black tribes surrounding their Cape Colony and no one should take their land. However the Boers started attacking the Black areas and seizing their farms and villages. At first, the English assumed that the Blacks would easily be able to ward off the invasion as the Afrikanners had no professional troops like the British. However, the neighboring tribes were not very warlike or good fighters. They were being overrun by the Zulus coming from the North and the Boers from the South. The British Government had a real problem in that they would have to have British soldiers fight the white Afrikanners if they wanted to stop the illegal white invasions. This was the root of the Boer War where the British would be fully at war with the Africanners.
The Syrian Civil War created a great dilemma for pacifists. The government of Syria was murdering civilians in large numbers if they were in areas suspected of containing rebels. Diplomacy and sanctions would not stop the slaughter. It appeared that the only way to stop the murder of so many civilians was to use military force against the Syrian government. Junger posed the moral dilemma this way.
His opposition to slavery focused on the breakup of families and leaving the elderly, weak and inform to die. His view was similar to that of William Pitt.
