Democratic (socialist/fascist) President Carter announces that respect for human rights will be “the soul of our foreign policy.” A month previous, Carter authorized a near doubling of military aid to the dictatorship of Indonesia, which had invaded the former Portuguese enclave of East Timor.
Postscript: During Carter’s four years in office over 200,000 East Timorese were killed by the Army of Indonesia.
[added 11/20/2022]
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References:
Carter’s Less-Known Legacy
www.commondreams.org/views02/1018-06.htm
Jimmy Carter and Human Rights: Behind the Media Myth
www.fair.org/media-beat/940921.html
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