Foreign Policy Is An Explicitly Amoral Enterprise.

'acting As If...' I Decided, Ridiculously In Retrospect, That My Experience Covering Women's Volleyball For My College Newspaper Was Sufficient For Me To At Least Try To Become A War Correspondent.

When I Wake Up In The Middle Of The Night When I Hear One Of My Kids Coughing Or Crying, I Think About Syria.

When Dictators Feel Their Support Slipping Among Adults, It Is Not Unusual For Them To Alter School Textbooks In The Hope Of Enlisting Impressionable Youths In Their Cause.

In The '90s, There Was Scant Presidential Leadership And Insufficient Domestic Political Mobilization For Foreign Policy Grounded In Human Rights.

Countries That Intervene Militarily Rarely Do So Out Of Pure Altruism.