Commentary Magazine


The End of Diplomacy

To the Editor:

In “Foreign Policy and the American Mind” [September], Robert A. Nisbet writes: “It is a truth often uttered that war is an extension of foreign policy.”

That is not a truth. It may well have been in the time of von Clausewitz, but no longer. War is, instead, the breakdown of whatever diplomatic policy we may presently have. . . .

Stanley Froud
New York City

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