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The bottom line on foreign policy and morality (or justice) is this: if a nation does not care for the interests of its own citizens, who will do it?

If our nation must devote itself to the welfare of other nations, will those other nations look to our welfare? Certainly not. This is what Plato was addressing in your last quotation. The United Nations does not care for the good of US citizens. It sees the citizens of one nation as the piggy bank with which to buy the support of other nations.

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RAM's avatar
Apr 1Edited

The idea that a just society benefits from other just societies around it is sound, but a lot of good can still be done locally regardless. Nations, like people, need freedom to do their own constructive experiments. Settled politics is as mythical as settled science.

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