America's Moral Foreign Policy

After seeing Hotel Rwanda last night, this hit me pretty hard:

"There cannot be an absence of moral content in American foreign policy," (Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice) says. "Europeans giggle at this, but we are not European, we are American, and we have different principles."


Granted, Rwanda was on Clinton's (and Albright's) watch, but *knock knock* hellooooooooo Sudan? I'm sure that's just the most publicized (though largely ignored by us from a Foreign Policy Standpoint) of many global atrocities not worth our very moral consideration.

I don't believe that morals have ever played a heavy hand in American Foreign Policy; sure, they can be a nice, righteous white horse from which we can wield our mighty sword, but when it's convenient to us and can be encapsulated in such a way that it makes our most heinous deeds seem like acts of God.



PS Europeans giggle? C'mon Condi.