Leaked memo schooled Tillerson on human rights

Striped Horse · Jan 1, 2018

The leaked memo (so much leaking from the sinking ship) is highly embarrassing for clearly elucidating what most informed observers have known for decades - US foreign policy is predicated on hypocrisy and double standards.

“He utterly misses the elemental fact that America’s moral authority is one of our main advantages in the world, and that it would disappear if we apply it as selectively as he advises,” Malinowski added.
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Malinoski is deluding himself, I think. He perspective is several decades behind reality. And I can't help but think that this is also true of the ruling elite and their various policy cliques.

If America's credibility hadn't been irreparably damaged before 9/11, it became cadaverous after that date as the neocons embarked on a rampage of war to stave off the collapse of US global Hegemony - as detailed in the Wolfowitz Doctrine and the Project for a New American Century.

Why is it that the husband is always the last one to know?

Leaked memo schooled Tillerson on human rights

A tutorial from policy aide Brian Hook followed the secretary of state's controversial remarks about balancing U.S. values and interests.

By NAHAL TOOSI

12/19/2017 05:12 AM EST

It is not clear whether Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ever read the memo, which was categorized as "sensitive but unclassified." | Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AFP/Getty Images

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.

The comment, at a gathering of State Department employees, provoked an outcry among former U.S. officials and human rights activists who feared America was abandoning a vital mission. 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.”

The May 17 memo reads like a crash course for a businessman-turned-diplomat, and its conclusion offers a starkly realist vision: that the U.S. should use human rights as a club against its adversaries, like Iran, China and North Korea, while giving a pass to repressive allies like the Philippines, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
“Allies should be treated differently—and better—than adversaries. Otherwise, we end up with more adversaries, and fewer allies,” argued the memo, written by Tillerson’s influential policy aide, Brian Hook.

It is unclear what prompted Hook to author the memo, and whether he did so at Tillerson’s request amid a furor in foreign policy circles about Tillerson’s May 3 remarks, in which he said that “it’s really important that all of us understand the difference between policy and values” like “freedom, human dignity and the way people are treated.”

But the memo, a photo of which was shown to POLITICO, suggests that Tillerson, a former CEO of ExxonMobil, was still on a steep learning curve when it comes to foreign affairs. It also seems to foreshadow President Donald Trump's approach to the complex politics of human rights overseas.

During his May visit to Saudi Arabia, and while hosting the leaders of Egypt and Turkey at the White House, Trump did not publicly press the leaders of those countries on their authoritarian policies. But during an address to South Korea’s Parliament in November, Trump spoke at striking length about the brutality of North Korea’s regime. Trump and Tillerson have also repeatedly assailed Iran’s human rights record.

Hook’s memo “tells Tillerson that we should do exactly what Russian and Chinese propaganda says we do—use human rights as a weapon to beat up our adversaries while letting ourselves and our allies off the hook,” said Tom Malinowski, who served as an assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor in the administration of former President Barack Obama.

“He utterly misses the elemental fact that America’s moral authority is one of our main advantages in the world, and that it would disappear if we apply it as selectively as he advises,” Malinowski added.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/19/tillerson-state-human-rights-304118

trucker · Jan 1, 2018

old south paw tKiller

Montecresto · Jan 1, 2018

PNAC. All we need is another Pearl Harbor and we’ll have the capital to advance our entire agenda.

trucker · Jan 1, 2018

looks like a skull and bones type upbringing he got in collage their in Austin tx..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Tillerson

he University of Texas at Austin in 1975.[17] During his time at UT Austin, he was involved with the Tejas Club,[18] and the marching band.[18]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tejas_Club

In its early years, Tejas was associated with Theta Nu Epsilon (ΘΝΕ), a nationwide sophomore class society which also included such organizations as Skull and Bones at Yale University, The Phoenix – S K Club at Harvard University, and The Machine at the University of Alabama
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http://www.tejasalumni.org

the great spirit revealed the secrets which belong to Tejas...those who are strong both in mind and in body and who could, thus, ascend the perilous trails to the land of Tejas. So as you go forward, keep ever in your thoughts the value of a trained mind, a sound body, and an appreciation for all things beautiful...
---The Legend of Tejas
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