Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame. (Robert Kagan)

Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.

Robert Kagan

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