id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005196871 Gerety, Peter Leo, Apb., 1912- U.S. foreign policy : a critique from Catholic tradition : submitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee 1976 .txt text/plain 5799 196 45 Therefore, blatant policies/practices of nations which, for example, deny legal protection to citizens, detain political prisoners without due process, utilize torture, and impose restrictions upon citizens’ participation in society based on religious, ethnic and/or racial standards, cannot go unchallenged in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy, especially when, as Kissinger has noted, we have the latitude to “seize the moral opportunity,” and have the capacity “to influence events, often decisively.” It is incumbent upon U.S. foreign policy makers that ways be found to factor specific human rights concerns into the foreign policy, as they have learned to do with a variety of other concrete issues, such as our commercial, labor, agricultural and fisheries interests. But in a discussion of the moral foundations of foreign policy, can one ignore almost $200 million for Latin America and almost $450 million for East Asia? cache/_005196871.txt txt/_005196871.txt