Bill Maher On Ukraine: ‘We Have A Hard Time Making The Human Rights Case Anymore’

[Purveyor]

As Real Time host Bill Maher and his panelists debated on Friday about Russia’s potential to further destabilize Europe, Maher told his guests that the U.S. has lost the moral high ground on global affairs.

“We have a hard time making the human rights case anymore,” Maher said. “We used to have a better case right after the Nuremberg trials. We did something no other did. We could have just hung them. And we said, ‘No, you deserve a trial, even though you’re Nazi vermin.”

“Taking the high road has gone out of style,” Guardian U.S. columnist Ana Maria Cox said in agreement. “I wish it hadn’t. But sort of talking about this loose talk about nukes shows that we want to play on the same level as everyone else — to somehow prove something kind of macho.”

Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) disagreed with Cox, saying that it was more out of a need to stop “bad people” from moving forward with gathering nuclear materials.

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[sabrina 1]

1. I think that is generally accepted now, that the US lost its moral authority thanks to the Bush gang

of war criminals, and lost the chance to restore it by choosing to 'move forward' from War Crimes that the whole world witnessed, and Wall St. Criminals.

Until we go back and start prosecuting the criminals, we can point all we want at others, but the world will simply remind us that we have war criminals walking among us freely along with the criminals who collapsed the world's economies.