From Greg Grandin’s book on Kissinger:
Kissinger dwelled awhile on the danger statesmen face when they point out to their nation’s people that they are not, in fact, the world, that their aspirations are not boundless, that other peoples, with different interests and experiences, exist. Unwilling to accept these limits, citizens often stage “an almost hysterical, if subconscious, rebellion against foreign policy.
This is absolutely spot on. Here’s the reason why the US foreign policy is so impotent. Voters flip out whenever foreign affairs are mentioned because they are traumatized by the realization that other human beings, with the will and interests of their own, exist.
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