5 Foreign Policy Unicorns I Need to Kill

Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy
In politics, we are often asked to believe in unicorns, mermaids, or goblins and to vote for politicians who say they are either going to produce one (if it's something we want) or eradicate them (if we think they're dangerous). In other words, we're being asked to believe in things that don't exist and then being promised that our future leaders will make policy as if they were real.