Confessional Foreign Policy
Robert Seiple Wednesday, 1 September 2004
It has been said that the 1990s was a decade of apology without accountability. While the mea culpas from high places seemed to come easily, they were often insincere, ill-conceived, and ineffective. Yet we should not dismiss the impulse to apologize as just another element in the Oprah-ization of our politics. Rather, if we want the twenty-first century to avoid the worst mistakes of the twentieth, we will need to practice a more mature form of confessional foreign policy.
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