Quotation for Today, Sunday June 7

The real question is whether it’s sensible, in a changing and often unpredictable world, to treat a foreign policy stance as a component of national identity and therefore above debate, even above politics? Apart from anything else, it’s hardly the sign of a maturing, self-confident nation that we can’t discuss the issue without shrill accusations of toadying to those awful Americans and putting New Zealanders’ lives at risk.

Paul Thomas in an NZ Herald article looking at NZ’s foreign policy stance and questioning our reluctance to debate the issues.

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