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USAID Down, Now Let’s Get Rid of DRL
« on: February 07, 2025, 02:58:20 pm »
February 7, 2025
USAID Down, Now Let’s Get Rid of DRL
By John M. Grondelski

With President Trump going after the “foreign assistance” doled out by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), announcing a review of its mission preparatory to its reform and/or elimination, I’d like to propose another State Department candidate for extinction: the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL).

DRL was founded in 1977, part of Jimmy Carter’s “human rights” agenda in foreign policy.  Carter stumbled on the idea of making promotion of “human rights” a central and practically independent element of American foreign policy.  DRL has pushed that perspective for five decades.

The question is, what are “human rights”?

The answer is, it depends.

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Re: USAID Down, Now Let’s Get Rid of DRL
« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2025, 05:49:15 pm »
I have never even heard of DRL. Sounds to me like another agency that may have started out good, stayed around under the radar and then turned into a slush fund.  :shrug:
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Re: USAID Down, Now Let’s Get Rid of DRL
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2025, 09:48:21 pm »
Absolutely.
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« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2025, 10:34:08 pm »
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Re: USAID Down, Now Let’s Get Rid of DRL
« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2025, 10:46:46 pm »
Don't forget FINRA.
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