.peterbeinart: President Biden's appointment of Elliott Abrams is a grave mistake, but sadly in keeping with the administration's approach to human rights.
Earlier this month, the Biden administrationElliott Abrams to the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. The position is obscure but Abrams is not. During the last cold war, Abrams — more than perhaps any other U.S. official — used the language of human rights to excuse the crushing of those same rights. Now, as America descends into a new cold war, the Biden administration seems poised to do the same thing.
Abrams grew up a Democrat. He left the party after Vietnam, when Democrats like President Jimmy Carter began to question whether the U.S. should continue arming dictators, orchestrating coups and waging wars in the world’s poorest countries to prevent leftist movements from taking power. Carter, who had been deeply influenced by the Civil Rights Movement, tried instead to promote human rights in countries across the ideological spectrum. He did so inconsistently, and with mixed results.
While traditional conservatives distrusted the new focus on human rights, Abrams urged Republicans to turn that language into a weapon against communism. Horrified, Abrams joined the Reagan administration and formulated a plan to fight back. While traditional conservatives distrusted the new focus on human rights, Abrams urged Republicans to turn that language into a weapon against communism.
Abrams ascended the ranks of Reagan’s State Department to become assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere affairs. The job gave him dominion over Central America, a region long controlled by tiny elites of European descent that treated their country’s Indigenous and mixed-race populations like chattel. But that deeply rooted oppression wasn’t Abrams’ concern. For him, every peasant rebellion was a potential beachhead for Moscow.
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