“There is no good way for the United States to promote democracy and human rights abroad while it remains a model for a militarized counterterrorism-based foreign policy,” write co-authors Yumna Rizvi, CVT senior policy analyst, and Sarah Yager, Washington director at Human Rights Watch. They write about how the United States’ response to 9/11 has been used by other countries to justify their own counterterrorism measures, noting that, “The United States has not reckoned with its excesses of force and abuses, and much of the abusive counterterrorism playbook remains in use as official U.S. policy.”

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