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kleinbl00  ·  4090 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "I saw a scene of utter cruelty"

Foreign policy is determined by elected officials and carried out by career diplomats and operatives. Even if there was only one of each there would still be a disconnect.

Nothing bizarre about it. For any one person there can be several motivations... and we're talking about something as bit as "the West's regard for the East."





user-inactivated  ·  4090 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Dammit, this particular dichotomy is pretty damn simple... but then there's the Nixon tapes and the Kissinger letters disallowing everything I say.