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promotion of human rights and the protection of national security as in inherent tension
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President Bush’s 2002 U.S. National Security Strategy speaks of a “commitment to protecting basic human rights.” In the same document, President Bush makes it clear that “defending our Nation against its enemies is the first and fundamental commitment of the Federal Government.”
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unnecessary and strategically questionable. A more effective U.S. foreign policy would view human rights and national security as correlated and complementary goals.
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states that systematically abuse their own citizens’ human rights are also those most likely to engage in aggression
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Promoting human rights has long been viewed as a luxury, to be pursued when the government has spare diplomatic capacity and national security is not being jeopardized
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Reagan’s policies “reveal a deep reluctance to sacrifice even minor economic interests, let alone security interests, for human rights.”
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in order “to avoid engagement in a conflict that posed little threat to American [security] interests” the Clinton Administration engaged in an “almost willful delusion that what was happening in Rwanda did not amount to genocide.”
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