Volume 43, Number 7 · April 18, 1996
Whose Foreign Policy?
By Murray Kempton
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1995 May)
US Department of State (available on the Internet; to be released in
So speaks the State Department of the United States in the solemn official voice of the most recent of its annual country-by-country reports on human rights practices. The meager deposit of the State Department's human rights conscience has been consigned to the custody of Assistant Secretary John Shattuck. Anyone whose attention to that subject wanders too insistently from the passive into the active is apt to be a lonely voice in the world around him. Shattuck is so far from an exception as to be the loneliest of voices in his own State Department. But then even the Secretary of State's voice is lonely, too. The image of an American foreign policy establishment as unified and disciplined instrument is an academic fantasy.
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