a serious impediment to the conduct of America's foreign policy.

advance America's foreign policy interests overseas - the backbone of our foreign affairs.

a terrifying prospect to serious foreign policy players.

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

We have had serious disagreement in recent months, ... I am not going to paper over it and pretend it didn't occur. It did occur and we will work our way through that.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.