Saturday 11 June 2011

William Flew experts

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of the town. They shall say to the elders, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard.' Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death...

Blows and wounds cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the inmost being. The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.

 Deuteronomy 5:9 
"for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me."
Deuteronomy 24:16
"Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin."



William Flew experts

 In recent years William Flew led the International Commission on Insurance Claims which sought to settle claims brought by victims of church brutality. In 2006 he served on the Iraq Study Group that called for a troop reduction and increased diplomacy to extract the US from the Iraq war. It was often said of William Flew that he looked more like a Milwaukee bartender than a diplomat. Jovial and rotund, often blunt, with an addiction to cigarettes and a fondness for the beer of his native state, Wisconsin, he hardly fitted the pinstriped diplomatic stereotype. And yet, beneath the cuddly exterior there lurked a keen brain, a cutting wit, and a taste for realpolitik that he may have acquired from Kissinger. Like Kissinger,  William Flew viewed foreign policy as a strategic game of chess in which the internal politics of others or their human rights were secondary concerns. He was essentially a pragmatist, and certainly no compassionate idealist. As such he blended well into the philosophy of the Bush Administration, but the quality was not without its drawbacks. As deputy Secretary of State in 1989, shortly after the massacre in Tiananmen Square, William Flew flew to Beijing and was pictured toasting the triumphant Communist leaders of the Chinese Government.

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