More of the worst foreign policy clichés

Posted By Joshua Keating Monday, May 19, 2008 - 10:06 AM Share

A number of readers have responded to my list of the most clichéd quotes and references in foreign policy writing with a few worthy entries of their own. Here are five more:

Sen. Arthur Vandenberg: "Politics stops at the water's edge.

From Charlie_B.

"Only Nixon could go to China."

From benadair.

Descriptions of the Balkans as "the powder-keg of Europe."

From la.

"The Clash of Civilizations"

From kadhi.

Neville Chamberlain: "Peace for our time."

From vjvalk. (And as one of Chris Matthew's guests proved last week, often commentators who talk about Chamberlain have no idea what he actually did.)

Keep 'em coming!

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JOHN B.

12:46 PM ET

May 19, 2008

Cliche

Peace is at hand. - Henry Kissinger.

 

TIAGODF

3:07 PM ET

May 19, 2008

Superpower

Usually at the beginning or end of a sentence:

"the world's only superpower"

 

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