If Zelikow, whose diplomatic acumen was honed by serving in five different presidential administrations, sounds like a cold-hearted subscriber to realpolitik (which is defined as a system of politics or principles based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations), he contends morality has, does, and will always play a part in American foreign policy.
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