(May 11, 2015 at 7:31 pm)abaris Wrote: It's an urban myth that the US has a better humanitarian conduct than other countries. Throughout the 40ies, 50ies and 60ies there have been despicable experiments on unwitting citizens, sometimes with the active help of Nazi and Japanese war criminals, but in any case using research notes from concentration camps. So the above isn't the only incident and not the most outrageeous of all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_h...ted_States
I wouldn't say US overall having better average humanitarian conduct than the likes of Soviet Union, Communist China, and various other left and right wing dictators is a myth.
What is a myth is the implication that the U.S. would never stoop to doing what it loudly proclaims to be utterly Unacceptable when done by others, or that those whom the U.S. appoint to be the point persons at times of moderate or severe crisis, real or perceived, would all be more averse to gross human right abuses than point persons of our ideological and political enemies just.
