wretchard
2008-08-25 23:34:42
With a clear strategic goal based on national self-interest, a setback in one arena would be balanced by a gain in another. But when the goal of policy is to achieve something so specific as the arrest of a single man or group of men, it is no longer statecraft but policework. A nation can pursue its goals in many ways. But a criminal can only apprehended in one way.
