Just Foreign Policy: Do you think it’s right for U.S. officials to pontificate about human rights abuses in an “adversary” country where the U.S. has little influence, but then to stay quiet while human rights are abused in a U.S. “ally” where the U.S. has much more influence, because it’s claimed that staying quiet about abuses by an “ally” serves “geostrategic interests”?

We don’t think that’s right.