Saturday, December 30, 2017

No surprise here


I wonder why they thought they had to put that in writing.
Three months into his tenure as secretary of state, Rex Tillerson alarmed veteran diplomats with remarks that sounded like a potential shift in American foreign policy: The U.S., he said, should be careful not to let values like human rights create "obstacles" to the pursuit of its interests.

  Politico
"Shift in American foreign policy"? Where have these people been?
Two weeks later, a top Tillerson adviser wrote up a short tutorial, in the form of a confidential memo to his boss, recapping “the debate over how far to emphasize human rights, democracy promotion, and liberal values in American foreign policy.”
He thought he had to spell that out for Tillerson? An Exxon Mobil CEO?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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