U.S. commander seeks to ease human-rights rules that limit training | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/06/us-usa-military-rights-idUSBRE9251NB20130306
Si le #SOCOM veut réduire les (soit disant) exigences en matière de respect des droits humains pour former les troupes militaires des pays étrangers ce n’est pas parce qu’il veut ses propres #SOB, mais parce que, sans rire, c’est le meilleur moyen de favoriser les droits humains.
The head of the U.S. military’s Special Operations Command is seeking to ease restrictions preventing elite American forces from training foreign units linked to human rights violations, saying limiting such help can sometimes be counter-productive.
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The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, Adam Smith, appeared sympathetic to McRaven and said the committee needed to examine the issue.
“I support the human rights concerns,” Smith said. “I just think that (Special Operations Command) being able to go in and do train-and-equip missions is a way to improve human rights.”