“Neutrality has increasingly become obsolete and, except under very exceptional circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.”

—  John Foster Dulles

[Ian Shapiro, Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror, https://books.google.com/books?id=i7L6if3mwzsC&pg=PA145, 2009, Princeton University Press, 145–]

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