"the new york times" also writing a piece this weekend about democracy and retreat in central and eastern europe. >> also the theme of our new issue of our magazine. but the united states is no longer setting an example that others want to emulate. the united states is no longer making the promotion and respect for democracy and human rights part of its foreign policy. we now have an amoral foreign policy that in this context people like me would argue is immoral. and joe, there's a gray area between what we're doing now which is doing nothing and saying the only purpose of american foreign policy so to transform the world and get everybody reading the federalist papers in their local language. there is something in between. we walked away from it. the only problem with h.r. mcmaster's speech is he did it when he was leaving the white house. it would have been a hell of a lot better if he did it when he