I am intrigued about the US exceptionalism since 9/11 in its foreign policy what Michael Ignatief referred to as American Exceptionalism and human rights (2006); in his introductory analysis following on from Iraq invasion in 2003; press.princeton.edu/titles/8080.htm ;“Michael Ignatieff identifies three main types of exceptionalism: exemptionalism (supporting treaties as long as Americans are exempt from them); double standards (criticizing "others for not heeding the findings of international human rights bodies, but ignoring what these bodies say of the United States); and legal isolationism (the tendency of American judges to ignore other jurisdictions)”. In the current context Ian Bremner asks the right question ; blogs.reuters/ian-bremmer/2013/06/13/american-exceptionalism-seen-through-the-prism-of-american-blunders/; “The past weeks’ revelations about PRISM, the National Security Agency’s broad electronic surveillance program, follow a grand American tradition of major disclosures that undermine the high standards to which the United States holds itself — and the world. In this case: How can the U.S. tell other countries to stop using the Internet to pursue their aims at the expense of others when it has been systematically spying on foreigners for years? Jesselyn Radack in ; dailykos/story/2013/07/12/1222987/-U-S-Pressures-Latin-America-to-Deny-Snowden-Asylum-as-He-Meets-With-Human-Rights-Groups suggests ; The United States is conducting a diplomatic full-court press to try to block Edward J. Snowden, the fugitive American intelligence contractor, from finding refuge in Latin America . . . It is an affront to human rights for the persecuting country to pressure other sovereign nations to deny asylum Asylum is a human right under the International Declaration of Human Rights, and Snowden quite clearly meets the criteria, even more so considering that the U.S. has expended considerable diplomatic capital to capture him. The U.S. is willing to upend decades of delicate diplomatic relationship-building to prosecute a whistleblower. The U.S. has globalized whistleblower retaliation.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 22:04:19 +0000
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