Abstract

Editorials

This article presents information on various political developments in the U.S. Since the fall of power company Enron Corp., Republicans have been polishing their populist patter. U.S. President George W. Bush cast aside his patron, Enron CEO Ken Lay, and proclaimed himself the champion of executive rectitude. When the Corporate and Auditing Accountability Act passed in the House, Republican Richard Baker crowed, "we have taken action. We have stood up to Wall Street." One year after the story broke that U.S. Navy SEAL team under his command was involved in an atrocity during the Vietnam War, former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey stood before a packed hall in lower Manhattan as the keynote speaker at a three-day conference on human rights. The conference, "International Justice, War Crimes and Terrorism: The U.S. Record," took place at New School University, where Kerrey is president, and grew out of Kerrey's own suggestion that his experience in Vietnam be turned into an "educational moment."