The Kouchner Project: “Internationalism’s Last Chance”

by Transmontanus, 11 November 2007

In the past dozen weeks, in a whirl of dramatic trips to every continent, Mr. Kouchner has outlined a mission that is as improbable as everything else in his life: to unite Europe and the United States in muscular humanitarian missions to improve the world, without immediate regard for national interest.

Comments

  1. mnuez

    Monday 12 November 2007 at 6:48

    Ben Hecht once requested of people living in future generations that they credit his bones with having discovered that the two chief ingredients in Man are Poison and Folly.

    Looking at a world as riddled with human suffering as our own is while the Free Countries of the world wallow in wealth more massive than any past generations could have imagined leads me a humble bow at Hecht’s tomb. Indeed, the chief ingredients in Man’s soul are Poison and Folly.

  2. Terry Glavin

    Monday 12 November 2007 at 6:56

    “Indeed, the chief ingredients in Man’s soul are Poison and Folly.”

    No. They’re minor ingredients. Main ingredients: High-order intelligence and empathy. Poison and Folly are there but in equal parts to Heroism and Doodling.