"This is an issue that is beyond "left" and "right" wing categories and goes to the heart of what it is to be a good society, one that values truth-seeking in a climate of free and constructive debate"

Totally agree. But what happens when (hypothetically) you discover a truth that disagrees with your own ideological beliefs?

Its easy for non-teachers to provide comments from the side lines - much more difficult to actually design, administer, prepare, and deliver 14 weeks of lectures and tutorials.

Walk a mile in our shoes!

Need of the courage to protest against any action by any country that has not had legal agreement from both Geneva and Hague Conventions.

Most informative statement since WW2 was the one by Henry Kissinger that to allow little new Israel to go militarily nuclear would not only upset the balance of power in the Middle East for years to come, but has surely caused the increase in bitterness and hatred from Arab nations over those years.

Making the situation worse from an academic point of view was Israel's treatment of Mordecai, who from a philosophical viewpoint, should go down in history as one with courage enough to back statements as declared by Kissinger, as well as revealing the gutlessness of the time, not only shown by the UN but also by the silence of both Geneva and Hague Conventions.

Certainly the pride that an old soldier like myself felt following the rhetoric from the new UN during the Korean
War, is now buried in the shock and bitterness resulting from a world that has allowed America, just one nation to rule our globe and making such a mess of it by breaking laws that have also been proven from the trials and errors of both our religous and philosophical histories.

It is thus as Immanuel Kant declared:

From now on we cannot trust neither one nation nor even one man under God to rule this world, but preferably a
Federation of Nations.

From which of course grew the League of Nations and our present United Nations, but failed mostly by a single strong nation letting single nation characters like Condoleeza Rice move in trying to posture the tone of global justice.