The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives.

Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.

Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.

We handed this administration the most favorable foreign policy cards of any administration since World War II and unfortunately one-by-one-by-one they frittered them away.

Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that somehow you still have more to give.