Problematic Ally

The moral hazards of dealing with Ethiopia's Meles Zenawi

Saturday, July 21, 2007; The Washingtonpost

MORE THAN once during the Cold War, the United States aligned itself with dictatorial or corrupt, but anticommunist, foreign governments, compromising democratic principles for perceived advantage against the Soviet Union. These choices were not necessarily wrong, but each one put the U.S. on a slippery slope, at the bottom of which lay a completely amoral foreign policy.Read more on ...