alt Hacker NewsIt's fine if you either stick to your principles or play a game of shameless realpolitik.
Just don't pretend you can convince us that you are actually doing the former when all we see is you doing the later. We are not retarded. You are the retard for thinking we will fall for your rhetorics.
Realpolitik is shameless, that's kind of the whole deal. It's still how this stuff works. The US doesn't care about democracy because it's good for people in other countries, the US cares because it's good for the US.