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The Humanitarian with an Atom Bomb
Brendan O'Neill on the horrors of an ethical foreign policy.
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O'Neill is a bit off here. The problem with "ethical foreign policy" is not the "ethical" part, but the "foreign policy" part. There shouldn't be a foreign policy. The government should stop making foreign policy. It should leave individuals alone, to interact and trade as they wish.