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And of course that pretense is part of the larger pretense that US foreign policy has anything to do with concern for human rights — "to punish this regime for imposing suffering on its people, we'll impose even more ourselves" would be a tough line to parrot with a straight face
Sure, though I'd argue US foreign policy should - even from a pure realist perspective - concern itself with human rights. To do otherwise is what Andre Beaufre calls a 'psychologically false note' which entails severe costs in indirect strategy so often shaped by public opinion
Well from a purely cynical realist perspective, the benefits of the US being able to rely on horrifically antidemocratic/repressive allies and proxies like Egypt or Saudi Arabia seem pretty substantial, hard to outweigh with some vague sense of appealing to international goodwill
But of course that's easy for me to say from a leftist perspective, taking for granted that US foreign policy is firmly opposed to the values I hold dear; the more attached one is to the idea of the US as a force for good in the world, the more troubling these questions become
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