Diplomacy and Double Standards
America's failure to cut off military aid to Egypt in response to the regime’s massacre of hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters is as clear a recent case of diplomatic hypocrisy as one can find. For a country whose global leadership depends as much on its soft power as on its military might, that is dynamite.
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CANBERRA – When does acceptable diplomatic caution and realism become indefensible abdication of moral standards? Not everyone on the foreign-policy frontline cares, but those who do often face deeply uncomfortable choices.