The problem is that we tend to treat countries we, for other reasons dislike, as if they had poor human rights etc records & then use this as an excuse.

For example we attacked Yugoslavia (a country with a democratic electoral system & the rule of law) to support Izetbegovic’s Bosnian moslems & the KLA who demonstrably had neither & the Croatian nazis who had no rule of law.
We clearly hold Israel to different human rights standards than the well-heeled Saudis. We defended the human rights of the victims of communism infinitely harder than those of the Chileans & virtually every other Latin American country except, naturally, Cuba. We helped America bomb Libya because they were supplying guns to the IRA but did not bomb Boston. We helped the Mujahadeen when they threw acid over Afghan schoolgirls in the Soviet era & now consider them terrorists.

In a world where we were engaged in a life & death struggle with the Soviets (if we ever really were) such hypocricy may have been justifiable. If the intent now is to create a world where peoples can live in harmony it is both immoral & counterproductive. We must, for our own sake, respect a rule of international law that applies equally to all.