Gates: "We have made human rights the centerpiece of our national strategy even as we did business with some of the worst violators of human rights"

Speech (here) Delivered by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, Williamsburg, VA, Monday, September 17, 2007. (tell me if anything changed!?)

"... We have at times made human rights the centerpiece of our national strategy even as we did business with some of the worst violators of human rights.آ We have worked with authoritarian governments to advance our own security interests even while urging them to reform..."