{"id":28969,"date":"2017-05-09T17:24:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T01:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=28969"},"modified":"2017-05-09T17:24:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T01:24:34","slug":"mccain-hammers-tillerson-on-human-rights-why-the-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/09\/mccain-hammers-tillerson-on-human-rights-why-the-panic\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain Hammers Tillerson On Human Rights: Why The Panic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) published an op-ed in the New York Times yesterday taking Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to task for Tillerson&#8217;s recent comment that our national security goals overseas may on some occasions preclude the export of our human rights values. In McCain&#8217;s view, it is our duty always and everywhere to export American values and help &#8220;liberate&#8221; oppressed masses overseas. But what about McCain&#8217;s own record? How are the people doing in those countries &#8220;liberated&#8221; by the policies he has endorsed? Is the average Iraqi, or Libyan, or Syrian better off now, after US military intervention to &#8220;promote our values&#8221;? Most likely McCain&#8217;s article is meant to scuttle tomorrow&#8217;s meeting between Tillerson and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov. Will McCain succeed? We discuss in today&#8217;s Ron Paul Liberty Report:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BLcZRDIFA7k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) published an op-ed in the New York Times yesterday taking Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to task for Tillerson&#8217;s recent comment that our national security goals overseas may on some occasions preclude the export of our human rights values. In McCain&#8217;s view, it is our duty always and everywhere to export [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-28969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28971,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28969\/revisions\/28971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28969"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=28969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}