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We do not look to bolster America’s adversaries overseas; we look to pressure, compete with, and outmaneuver them. For this reason, we should consider human rights as an important issue in regard to U.S. relations with China, Russia, North Korea and Iran. And this is not only because of moral concern for practices inside those countries. It is also because pressing those regimes on human rights is one way to impose costs, apply counter-pressure, and regain the initiative from them strategically.... Human rights violations by "our guys"? Meh.How to get the reputation of being hypocritical about liberalism and trash soft power.It's pretty obvious that these types could care less about humans rights as principles. To them everything is instrumental. Stopping all our embassies from
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We do not look to bolster America’s adversaries overseas; we look to pressure, compete with, and outmaneuver them. For this reason, we should consider human rights as an important issue in regard to U.S. relations with China, Russia, North Korea and Iran. And this is not only because of moral concern for practices inside those countries. It is also because pressing those regimes on human rights is one way to impose costs, apply counter-pressure, and regain the initiative from them strategically.... Human rights violations by "our guys"? Meh.How to get the reputation of being hypocritical about liberalism and trash soft power.It's pretty obvious that these types could care less about humans rights as principles. To them everything is instrumental. Stopping all our embassies from
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We do not look to bolster America’s adversaries overseas; we look to pressure, compete with, and outmaneuver them. For this reason, we should consider human rights as an important issue in regard to U.S. relations with China, Russia, North Korea and Iran. And this is not only because of moral concern for practices inside those countries. It is also because pressing those regimes on human rights is one way to impose costs, apply counter-pressure, and regain the initiative from them strategically....Human rights violations by "our guys"? Meh.
How to get the reputation of being hypocritical about liberalism and trash soft power.
It's pretty obvious that these types could care less about humans rights as principles. To them everything is instrumental.
Stopping all our embassies from promoting a progressive agenda that often alienates the most conservative—and traditional pro-American—members of society will be harder, however. Often times such support involves official aid to foreign NGOs that also receive aid from George Soros’s progressive network that operates in 140 countries around the world....The National Interest
How Donald Trump will Reverse Obama's Failed Foreign Policy Strategy
Mike Gonzalez | senior fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Davis Institute for International Studies