Interesting passage...

"In the effort to promote the rights of all, and observe the equality of sovereignty as between the great and the small, we unavoidably give to the little nations opportunities to embarrass us greatly. Faithfulness to the underlying concepts of freedom is frequently costly. Yet there can be no doubt that in the long run faithfulness will produce real rewards."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, in a letter to Swede Hazlett, during the 1956 Suez Crisis.