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Biden's State Secretary Blinken Imposing Apologist Foreign Policy

Biden's State Secretary Blinken Imposing Apologist Foreign Policy

Biden's State Secretary Blinken Imposing Apologist Foreign Policy
Jul 20, 2021 57 secs

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is telling American diplomats deployed across the world to admit to their country’s failures when promoting human rights and U.S.

In promoting human rights and democracy abroad, U.S.

diplomats should make “clear that we ask no more of other countries than we ask of ourselves,” Blinken states.

credibility as an advocate of human rights and democracy.

It might be “painful, even ugly” to acknowledge America’s flaws, Blinken wrote.

The secretary also ordered American diplomats to push human rights and democracy as a top priority even in U.S.

In defending Blinken, unnamed senior State officials reportedly asserted that diplomats would also continue to highlight America’s successes.

Blinken’s instructions to diplomats are reminiscent of the Obama-Biden administration’s apologist approach to foreign policy, which embraced the notion that the United States is a flawed nation that must seek forgiveness for the sins of its past.

diplomats promoting American exceptionalism — U.S.

Blinken has highlighted flaws in America’s human rights record in the past, soon after China voiced similar criticism, a move that some Republicans believe made the United States look weak.

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