Quote of the Day

Charles Hill, diplomat and Yale professor, being interviewed by Robert L. Pollock about the state of U.S. foreign policy in the weekend Wall Street Journal. This WSJ interview does not require a subscription to read, and I recommend it to you:

The message remains dead serious. The "battle" for liberal democracy and some semblance of international order "has been being won because the U.S. has been putting out the effort for it," he says. "And now we're not." 

In other words, when the U.S. stops being international policeman, nobody else steps up. The world becomes a more lawless, dangerous place.