A Pro-Life Foreign Policy?

By The Daily Dish

Not about abortion, but about physical security:

Aside from moral grounds, there are empirical reasons to favor a foreign policy based upon the respect for life. Prominent among these is the finding that the more effectively life is protected, the stronger the support for non-security (e.g., legal-political) rights, and not the other way around ... In short, evidence shows that the better security is protected, the more weight is given to legal-political rights."

But why is it America's job to do this?

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/10/a-pro-life-foreign-policy/209913/