There are several arguments for not allowing the people’s representatives to intervene in the complicated foreign-policy dance between force and diplomacy. For starters, there is the traditional idea that politics end at the water’s edge, where messy domestic disagreements are supposed to give way to the abstraction of one state with a unified national interest.
对于不让人民的代表参与复杂的武力和外交的对外关系博弈，有若干原因。首先，传统思维认为政治应该在水岸上结束，混乱的国内分歧应该屈从于一个国家、一种国家利益的抽象概念。