Foreign Policy Immaculately Conceived

Adam Garfinkle writes an article in Policy Review Online on what he called the immaculate conception theory of foriegn policy. He defines it in this paragraf. Take a look.

"The immaculate conception theory of U.S. foreign policy operates from three central premises. The first is that foreign policy decisions always involve one and only one major interest or principle at a time. The second is that it is always possible to know the direct and peripheral impact of crisis-driven decisions several months or years into the future. The third is that U.S. foreign policy decisions are always taken with all principals in agreement and are implemented down the line as those principals intend — in short, they are logically coherent."