Two Short Paragraphs That Summarize the U.S. Approach to Human Rights Advocacy

In hisexcellentarticle on the unique guilt-by-association standard being imposed on newly elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn,my colleague Jon Schwarzreferences a passage from a 2013Washington Post article that I want to highlight because of how illuminating it is. That Postarticle describesthe Obama administration’s growingalliance with human-rights-abusing regimes in Africa, which allow the U.S.to expand its drone operations there, and contains this unusually blunt admission from a “senior...