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

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.

I think we do have an interest in combating states that try to cross borders and steal parts of other people's country.

We, as Americans, have an interest in ensuring that the only people who get to vote for our elected leaders are our citizens, and not some foreign people who think that they have an interest in skewing our election in one direction or another.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

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

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