Are human rights still a Democratic priority?
To Democrats of a certain age, such a question might seem incomprehensible. After all, it was a Democrat, John F. Kennedy, whose inaugural address proclaimed "to friend and foe alike" that Americans would resist "the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed." It was another Democrat, Jimmy Carter, who made support for human rights an explicit foreign-policy concern, declaring at his inauguration: "Because we are ... Full Story »
Posted by Leo Romero
I was disappointed when Clinton made the statement she did about China's human rights record; she should have had a nuanced, carefully crafted line to use which indicates our unwavering concern for human rights in China. As for Cuba, the policies for the past 40 years have assured that we could have NO influence over human rights issues there. Reestablishing a dialogue seems like an excellent first step, however ill-advised the statements were of the caucus which visited there.