Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.

I'm going to Washington on a fateful, even historic, mission. I feel that I am an emissary of all Israel's citizens, even those who do not agree with me, and of the entire Jewish people

Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a whole is defined and pursued.... America's important historic relationship with Israel has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics, which, as the war in Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive.

The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.

In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore.

American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.