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“After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.”

Michael Mandelbaum

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The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.

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American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

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