In the crude violence of the contemporary international scene—with Russia running rampant in Ukraine and rattling its saber toward the Baltic states, with Muslims and Christians facing slaughter by ISIS in the Levant, and with thousands of African migrants boarding overloaded scows to cross the Mediterranean in a perilous search for work—it may seem harsh to hold an American President to a moral standard of foreign policy any higher than “realism.”But the moral aspirations of the American republic—even as framed by the current incumbent of the White House—permit a review of our foreign policy performance that is a bit more …read more
Source: The American Interest
