David J. Kramer is a foreign policy and human rights advocate who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the George W. Bush administration. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2009, writing about human rights policy and advocacy. He has held senior positions at several policy organizations, including the McCain Institute and Freedom House.
Vice President Biden had just completed a successful visit to Ukraine and Georgia last week when he created a new controversy with dire predictions about Russia. His comments, arguably ill-timed for his boss's efforts to reset relations with Moscow, were not the only ones in the past few days…
It has not been a promising start for the Obama administration in the area of human rights. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did the most damage with comments during her recent trip to Asia that could not have been more demoralizing to human rights defenders in China and around the world.…