Stephen M. Walt,Foreign Policy
In Dorothy L. Sayers's short account Talboys, the noble sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey at one point gives his young son Bredon an distinguished lesson about adult behavior. I'll tell you a secret, and Bredon,he says. Grown-up people don't always know everything, though they try to pretend they conclude. That is called prestige, or ' and is responsible for most of the wars that devastate the continent of Europe.
I thought of that passage when I heard about U.
S. President Donald Trump's decision to accept North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's invitation to a summit meeting. Like the grown-up...
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