What's Worse than Hypocrisy?

Incorrigibility?

From Chinese state-controlled daily, Xinhua.

Lin Bocheng, vice president of the China Foundation for Human Rights Development, noted that the United States was the only country to publish a human rights records every year to condemn orpress other countries in human rights problems.

"Its true attempts to interfere in and even to trample on humanrights and internal affairs of other countries, under the excuse of promoting 'democracy and human rights', will never be accepted by the international community," Lin said.

Feng Jiancang, director of the human rights research office with the Ministry of Justice, warned it was wasting time to reduceand weaken the negative influences of the abuse scandal via issuing the human rights record.

I'd rather have Chinese outrage over U.S. human rights abuses and U.S. outrage over Chinese human rights abuses than silence pretending to purity. You don't need to be perfect to know right from wrong. As it is, though, they prefer to whine about our hypocrisy since they can't really pretend to share our values...

It's a a scary thing in the contemplation of U.S. power. If America and Americans were silent about American shortcomings and those of others, who else would speak up and how forcefully?