The vultures showed no scruples in profiting at the expense of Argentine taxpayers. They are now deploying the same strategy against the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of the world s poorest countries.

Let s examine the illness that leads certain EU leaders with questionable scruples to forget even the recent past. Busy with domestic political affairs, they do not hesitate to use Europe as a scapegoat to avoid breaking bad news to their fellow citizens.

Reflecting its fears about the potential for Chinese encirclement, democratic India, after early hiccups of doubt, set aside its scruples about Burma s military regime. India s cultural, economical, social, and sometimes military ties with Burma indeed, with the entire region are older than China s.

Kim, in a sense, was the anti Havel, lacking not only moral scruples, but even the usual dictatorial concern for how a country is managed. His death made me recall that of Mao Zedong, with all the mass hysteria real and feigned that accompanies the demise of a self anointed god.

In Italy, the right wing daily newspaper Il Giornale had no scruples about devoting its headline for August 3, 2012, to the emergence of the Fourth Reich. Likewise, conspiracy websites in the countries of northern Europe claim that Germany s eagerness to support Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko against Russian President Vladimir Putin is a reenactment of Hitler s subjugation of Ukraine.

Necessity may also lead to reducing or even eliminating sovereignty when a government, whether from a lack of capacity or conscious policy, is unable to provide for the basic needs of its citizens. This reflects not simply scruples, but a view that state failure and genocide can lead to destabilizing refugee flows and create openings for terrorists to take root.