Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The major wars that the U.S. became involved in are all ethically defensible.
I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.
Often, foreign policy - which, by definition, is largely out of American control - is simply a matter of not doing the wrong thing, the unwise thing.
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
Ethics are a key issue, and they're a key issue on the Democratic side, and all people have to be held to high standards.
Ethical decisions ensure that everyone's best interests are protected. When in doubt, don't.
Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the complications and consequences of endeavors.
Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.
Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.