U.S. promoting Human Rights, is wrong? Options

[Spirited Away]

"Are U.S. Efforts to Promote Human Rights Culturally Biased and Self-Serving?"

That is the question to which the answer would decide our foreign policies as well as why and how other nations perceive us as they do.

So, in your opinions, is there such a thing as universal morality, or do our morals differ so much that, for example: murder, rape, exploitation of child labor, are viewed as 'normal' to some (even hurtful to the economy if child labor is banned)?

Many have said that the US has no right to interfere with how other governments run, but what about in the case of abuse or things that affect humanity and global society?

[ComradeRed]

The United States does not have an obligation, nor a right, to promote human rights abroad, simply because our Constitution which governs the government and military does not authorize the military to be used for such purposes -- the military can only legitimately be used for defense and retaliation. Hence, Department of Defense. However, there are other ways to promote human rights such as free trade which ARE acceptable under the Constitution as well as political realism and also contain more acceptable means. We should promote human rights -- but we should only do so when (a) it does not harm us, and (b) the method was use to promote human rights is just and Constitutional.