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Many films would have glorified a scientist seeking such a goal, and treated the use of animals for that purpose as obviously justified.
But the proper course of action is that taken in Nuremberg, The Hague, Sierra Leone, and after the Bosnian conflict: prosecute those who designed, approved, and implemented the policy of torture and rendition, however high the chain of commission goes – including the lawyers who justified legal perversions that led to torture and murder – rather than targeting those farther down the chain of command.
After official US claims about weapons of mass destruction and about a connection to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, became untenable, Bush increasingly emphasized the argument that America’s invasion was justified to remove a tyrant, Saddam Hussein, and thus to free the Iraqi people.
In essence, this is an argument that the war was justified as a means of promoting human rights.
To the extent that unconventional monetary policy – including various forms of quantitative easing, as well as pronouncements about prolonging low interest rates – serves these roles, it might be justified.
Meanwhile, the US Federal Reserve “has justified its decision to start normalizing rates, despite below-target core inflation, by arguing that the inflation-weakening supply-side shocks are temporary.”
A combination of leadership talent and continuing luck means that, for the first time in decades in France, a prudent optimism may be justified.
The invasion of Afghanistan could be justified on the grounds that the Taliban provided Bin Laden and Al Qaeda with a secure training ground.
Invading Iraq could not be similarly justified.
A European politician heads the IMF, its board of directors is far more weighted towards Europe than is justified by Europe’s economic relevance, and it is rushing to ease lending conditions to Europe just as EU members are suffering deep insolvency problems.
Russians are justified, I believe, in their view that the West took advantage of Russia’s post-communist weakness to encroach on their country’s historic space.
Honor killings of Iraqi women are justified by alleged promiscuity or adultery.
Italy’s leaders justified their policies in the name of an outdated interpretation of “sovereignty,” one similar to that of the United Kingdom’s Brexiteers, whose haphazardness has left the UK’s future shrouded in uncertainty.
It is a heartless, cynical strategy of reckless disregard for human dignity, justified by bigoted discourse and biased narratives.
So concern about Iran’s nuclear program is still justified.
Legal uncertainty aside, whether the ECB’s decision to pursue QE can be justified ultimately depends on its impact.
This is justified by the fiction that the citizens of EU countries are members of a single polity.
Both candidates said that they would support Israel and not allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons, but there was no discussion of solutions to the Israel-Palestine conflict, or of the grounds on which countries that possess nuclear weapons might be justified to use force to prevent others from developing them.
This doctrine holds that, just as one should never worry about pouring too much water on a fire, whatever crisis-management measures are adopted are justified, because the alternatives would have been worse and might well have provoked catastrophe and/or a meltdown of financial markets.
Many bitumen companies claim that they already abide by such safeguards; but environmentalists’ skepticism is justified.
While some argue that humanitarian intervention is never justified without approval by the United Nations Security Council, the UN Charter itself provides a dubious foundation for this view.
As markets failed, calls for ethical regulation of the quest for profit has become justified not only in principle, but also in fact.
The decision, justified as part of China’s ongoing anti-corruption campaign – an endeavor that critics say is a cover for eliminating political figures disloyal to Xi – revealed an utter lack of regard, or even contempt, for world opinion.
In a letter published last month in The Lancet, doctors, scientists, and bioethicists from a wide range of countries – including Guinea, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal, as well as Britain, France, Hong Kong, and the United States – argued that a randomized trial is justified only when there is “equipoise,” or balance, between the two options offered.
How, then, can US President Donald Trump’s decision to impose substantial tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum be justified?
A state’s monopoly on the use of force is justified if citizens can rely on it to ensure their security.
But, even then, it can never be justified fully, and the nameless, nagging guilt of which Primo Levi wrote so movingly invariably follows.
Of course, if America’s strong patent regime were, as its proponents claim, the best way to foster innovation in the pharmaceutical industry, the Obama administration’s policy toward India could perhaps be justified.
The system of confinement that the ban represents is justified neither by Islamic texts, nor by the nature of the diverse society that the Al Saud and their Wahhabi partners’ rule.
For 30 years, the US government supported secular rulers who justified their iron grip on power by insisting that the choice was between them and “the Islamists” – whom they portrayed as religious zealots bent on taking their countries back to the Middle Ages.
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