“This list of examples could be continued indefinitely. I do not say that they are all reprehensible,” for politicians must compromise “in order to retain the privilege of conducting foreign policy at all….
“But I do say that this tendency has often placed on American statesmanship the stamp of a certain histrionic futility, causing it to be ineffective...allowing it to degenerate into a mere striking of attitudes before the mirror of domestic political opinion. Until the American press and public learn to detect and repudiate such behavior, the country will not have a mature and effective foreign policy, worthy of a great power.”
How little has changed.
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