Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Manufofin kare hakkin dan adam da Derian da kuma Daraktan Shirye-shiryen Siyasa na Ma'aikatar Harkokin Waje Anthony Lake suka gabatar sun kasance masu tsattsauran ra'ayi ta hanyar adawar Brzezinski. Rikice-rikicen siyasa sun kai ga mafi yawan rikice-rikice a lokacin faduwar mulkin Pol Pot na 1979 na Democratic Kampuchea bayan mamayewar Vietnam na Cambodia
, lokacin da Brzezinski ya yi nasara wajen samun gwamnatin da ta ƙi amincewa da sabuwar gwamnatin Kambodiya saboda goyon bayanta da Tarayyar Soviet. Duk da damuwar kare hakkin dan adam, Carter ya ci gaba da goyon bayan Amurka ga Joseph Mobutu na Zaire, wanda ya kayar da 'yan tawayen da Angola ta goyi bayan rikice-rikicen da aka sani da Shaba I da Shaba II. Gwamnatinsa kuma gabaɗaya ta guji sukar keta haƙƙin ɗan adam a Philippines, Indonesia, Koriya ta Kudu, Iran, Isra'ila, Masar, Saudi Arabiya, da Arewacin Yemen.