Secretary of State Mike Pompeo deserves praise for proposing an Unalienable Rights Commission to help guide American human-rights policy. Defending and promoting freedom is an essential element of U.S. foreign policy, and one that’s been neglected by recent administrations. Too often Washington has cozied up to dictators, embraced moral equivalency in international human-rights institutions, and appeared indifferent to struggles for liberty around the world. The foreign-policy establishment has confused defending human rights with ambitious and costly democracy and nation-building projects. Rather than focus on freedom,...

Source: Wall Street Journal June 10, 2019 23:03 UTC