Your foreign policy quote of the day
From Mark Mazzetti and Helene Cooper, “An Israeli Strike on Syria Kindles Debate in the U.S.” New York Times, October 10, 2007: ?You can?t just make these [foreign policy] decisions using the top of your spinal cord, you have to use the whole brain,? said Philip D. Zelikow, the former counselor at the State Department. ...
From Mark Mazzetti and Helene Cooper, "An Israeli Strike on Syria Kindles Debate in the U.S." New York Times, October 10, 2007: ?You can?t just make these [foreign policy] decisions using the top of your spinal cord, you have to use the whole brain,? said Philip D. Zelikow, the former counselor at the State Department. ?What other policy are we going to pursue that we think would be better??
From Mark Mazzetti and Helene Cooper, “An Israeli Strike on Syria Kindles Debate in the U.S.” New York Times, October 10, 2007:
?You can?t just make these [foreign policy] decisions using the top of your spinal cord, you have to use the whole brain,? said Philip D. Zelikow, the former counselor at the State Department. ?What other policy are we going to pursue that we think would be better??
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner
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