The Many Trials of Jacobo Timerman

Perhaps the best way to describe the great debate about American foreign policy in recent years is that it no longer has a place for Henry Kissinger. Nobody, except business, is interested in that kind of cunning. Idealism has been restored to foreign policy. The United States is called upon by all parties in the debate to pursue not only its interests but its principles; and the moral content of America’s position in the world is the standard by which it shall be measured. This is no mean achievement, so soon after the isolationist temptation reared itself in the aftermath of the morally motivated adventure in Vietnam. Only a few now maintain(Senator Helms among them) that the United States has no responsibility to intrigue agains...