Anyone can be immoral, but the accomplished amorality of diplomacy is more difficult to acquire. As a habit of mind it is generally confined to elites, partly because its possession usually leads to successful careers.
Walter Russell Mead: Special Providence - American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World
Actually, Mead isn't anywhere near as hostile to elites or men in striped pants as that quote makes him sound. The point he's making is that there's what he calls a "moral gap" between the experience of citizens of stable democracies, accustomed to playing by the rules, and the brutish world that their countries actually live in.
Hearing some of the noises made about Israel, a country that experiences the reality of a Hobbesian state of nature (alias "Hama Rules" ), bears that out, I'd say.
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