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A Perverse Patriotism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

Richard Falk
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A representative comment by Henry Kissinger on the Vietnam experience captures the essence of what he means by moral judgment in The White House Years:

A people must not lose faith in itself; those who wallow in the imperfections of their society or turn them into an excuse for a nihilistic orgy by eroding all social and moral restraints eventually, in their pitiless assault on all beliefs, multiply suffering.

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Worldview , Volume 23 , Issue 5 , May 1980 , pp. 11
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1980

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