Negotiations were treated less as a means of reconciling our ideals with our interests than as a trap to entangle us in the endless quarrels of a morally questionable world.

谈判不被当作是调和我们的理想和我们的利益的方法，而被看作是把我们拖进一个道德成问题的世界上的无休止的争吵的陷井中去。