Argentine jurist to lead UN Human Rights Committee

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2. No doubt about that.

But they also learned the U.S. could produce men of stature. People like President Carter and Secretary Cyrus Vance, who were no loose cannons but didn't check their integrity at the White House door.

I like President Obama; but he's been far too willing to needlessly concede crucial points to everyone from Wall Street banksters, to health insurance swindlers, to petty, corrupt foreign policy extremists of the kind that serve to undermine U.S. interests and should be nowhere near the State Department.

I mean, compare Carter's active opposition to dirty wars in Argentina and elsewhere then, to Obama's almost complete obliviousness to the dirty wars in Colombia, Honduras, and Mexico now: