The United States foreign policy has never been about human rights, it's always been realpolitik, we give it lip service when it suits the end result (which is

The United States foreign policy has never been about human rights, it's always been realpolitik, we give it lip service when it suits the end result (which is not credible except to credulous Americans.) The main exception was Jimmy Carter - https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/short-history/carter https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/short-history/ca... The international good guy theory of the United States foreign policy is a fiction fostered by history books in American K-12 public education - it's not supported by the evidence of a century of interventions in foreign countries for monied interests.