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But Obama is responsible for his administration’s apparent indifference to the fate of the American-built order that has governed world affairs since the end of World War II.
The world we want for our children will arrive only when we choose action over indifference, courage over comfort, and solidarity over division.
Today’s indifference is particularly, though not exclusively, evident in the United States.
This indifference mirrors similar reactions to other recent global appeals, such as for schooling for Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
But perhaps the most interesting and intriguing facet of this process is President Barack Obama’s eloquent indifference to the entire affair.
Neither the multicultural ethos (respect for “cultural diversity in an atmosphere of mutual tolerance,” as British Labor Minister Roy Jenkins put it in 1966), nor official indifference to religious identities (as in France, where the state, as the nineteenth-century historian Jules Michelet put it, “takes the place of God”) has worked as planned.
The indifference of some European countries towards Israel’s call for help during the debate over the Goldstone report was not unrelated to their frustration at Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s refusal to freeze the settlements, as Obama has been insisting.
As the world watches Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi slaughter his own people, we should remember the human cost of international indifference.
The result of the failure is a generalized indifference and passivity in audiences.
In reality, the eruption of the Yellow Vest protests was less about the fuel tax than what its introduction represented: the government’s indifference to the plight of the middle class outside France’s largest urban centers.
But the consequences of replacing vigilance with indifference regarding polio are too risky in today’s world.
There is no longer any room for such indifference.
On the other side is a kilometer-long caged walkway that leads into this part of Palestine, trapped between Israel, Egypt, the Mediterranean, and the general indifference of the international community.
Lenin and communism have passed away, but that cynical indifference to suffering when profits are involved remains.
Any losses or suffering that occurs as a result – except perhaps to the leaders personally – are a matter of indifference.
As a result, the culture of physical violence and verbal provocation that is gaining ground in Putin’s Russia is deeply disturbing, whereas we tend to judge Chinese misdeeds with a greater sense of distance, if not indifference.
But perhaps Russia’s indifference to human rights is a source of strength, not weakness.
The way we French are perceived by others affects how we perceive ourselves, and nothing is more troubling for us than to be perceived with indifference or, worse, not to be noticed at all.
The duty to intervene – and the cost of indifference – is probably higher for France than for any other Western country.
Radical losers are mostly young men who are so enraged by their own lack of social, economic, and sexual self-esteem and the indifference of the world around them, that they long for a suicidal act of mass destruction.
Their time for indifference is over.
In fact, we are witnessing a bizarre aberration in the context of Sweden’s treatment of sex crime – a case that exposes the grim reality of indifference, or worse, that victims there and elsewhere face.
If the justified intervention in Libya by the US, the UK, and France had not later been conducted with such cloth-eared indifference to Russian, Chinese, and developing-country concern about mandate overreach, greater unity on Syria could have been achieved in the Security Council in 2011, when a united message might have stopped Assad cold.
Now is no time for indifference.
People who know the frightening neighborhood of Tor di Quinto, where Giovanna Reggiani was killed have harsh words to say about the neglect and indifference of Rome’s city government.
Also, we are sorry for Trump’s apparent indifference to North Korea’s ability to strike you (and South Korea) militarily.
If we want to build something better on the ruins of multicultural indifference, our dialogue must become more profound.
But neither Khrushchev, nor Mikhail Gorbachev, nor Boris Yeltsin were able to uproot Russia’s stubborn culture of indifference and subordination, precisely because they insisted on top-down change and expected that the Russian people would simply acquiesce en masse.
Indeed, the reason why TB continues to take lives is simple: indifference.
This indifference stems from the deadly delusion that TB is a disease of the past – a delusion that has persisted, even as 10.4 million people contracted TB in 2016.
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