US foreign policy is cruel because American leaders are cruel-William Blum

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“Freeing the World to Death,” Quotation from author William Blum:

“U.S. foreign policy is cruel because American leaders are cruel. Our leaders are cruel because only those willing and able to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to.”

 

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