Word: lodestar
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Even in this moment of despair, the strength of Lincoln's desire to leave "the world a little better for my having lived in it" carried him forward. It became his lodestar, providing a set of principles and standards to guide his everyday actions...
...Elliott stated that the Bush Administration needs to clearly explain why it wants to intervene in places such as Liberia that do not appear to pose a direct threat to the U.S. [July 14]. He noted that "dangers await any Administration that strays from the national interest as the lodestar of its policy." I disagree and support U.S. intervention in troubled countries for humanitarian purposes. George W. Bush should definitely send troops to Liberia, regardless of whether doing so is a matter of national interest for the U.S. On many occasions the U.S. has been way too slow in taking...
...Maybe that's an unfair question, for nobody expects a nation's foreign policy to be neatly consistent. But the fact that it can be asked at all illustrates the dangers that await any Administration that strays from the national interest as the lodestar of its policy. The point, as Mandelbaum says, is "not that social work is a bad thing." On the contrary, it can be positively noble in intent and execution. Are we really to say that it was a mistake for the U.S. to intervene in Bosnia and Kosovo (where there was about as much...