You don't even prosecute the people who commit atrocities in your own country, much less those that commit them in others.
You don't have respect for human rights or values.
As an institution, you are monsters.
You don't even prosecute the people who commit atrocities in your own country, much less those that commit them in others.
You don't have respect for human rights or values.
As an institution, you are monsters.
The United States has serious and growing problems around its global support for human rights. The domestic policies it exhibits mirror that; there are clearly long-term problems that are deeply worrying.
But support for human rights is not a binary state. The United States has the rule of law, freedom of speech and religion, a functioning judicial system, and an army of human rights specialists who operate freely. It supports many of these initiatives in other countries, both as a society and a government. The fact that the country does many awful things does not mean that other countries should have a free pass to implement arbitrary policies free of criticism.
No country in the world has a perfect record of protecting human rights, but that should not prevent them calling for change elsewhere. I hope deeply that the US fixes its problems soon, but that does not stop me from being aware that organ harvesting and political assassinations are also bad.