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David Rieff

Humanitarian Fault Lines

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The Importance of Moral Authority in the United Nations

Butchus Gali had a kind of authority in the world and he was able to deploy that authority at times. But now, you know, if you said the moral authority of Antonio Guterres, I mean, he's a perfectly good guy. Nobody with a straight face would talk about themoral authority of the secretary because nobody takes it seriously. It's almost a question of rhetoric. You could say the UN has all this moral authority that it's squandering by not doing X or Y on Rwanda. And so now Ukraine, if you needed comfort, is already obvious that the belligerent in a first really major war in Europe since 45. The bookends was a slob

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