“Death to America” Is a Policy Statement, Not a Slogan
Thucydides observed, in his account of the Melian Dialogue, that the powerful do what they will while the weak suffer what they must — but he also noted something more interesting: that both powerful and weak alike are subject to self-deception, and that the most dangerous failure in foreign policy is not weakness but the deliberate refusal to hear what an adversary tells you plainly.
