Stephen Harper’s and John Baird’s trumpeting of a “values-based foreign policy” is ignorant and pretentious). However much we might wish it were so, there are effectively no universally agreed essential values, and we have had little success, anywhere in the world, forcing people to trade their values for ours."
And "“values-based foreign policy” is ignorant and pretentious" and in most cases, self-serving. We like to think our values are the most noble. But our values are changing fairly rapidly. It was fairly recently that our values included slavery. And even today we do not treat women equal to men nor Black Americans equal to White Americans. Are values need a lot of work yet we are using values to justify killing people.
Saying that there are no universally agreed essential values doesn't quite say it. IMO there are no sacred values. There is no where we can go to learn the universal sacred values that will live on forever.
Why are we bombing ISIS instead of Saudi Arabia? Hint: It has nothing to do with values.
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