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Biden’s Human Rights Promises: Rhetoric or Real?

Deep Dish on Global Affairs

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The False Construct of Human Rights

In past administrations, we have made the point that human rights is part of national security. But with this administration, consistently, what we're seeing is human rights is a nice to do, but not an imperative when it comes to these other interests. President Reagan used human rights. He didn't like human rights. Then he realized that human rights was this really great tool that he could use, at least rhetorically, to set America apart from the communists.

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