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based on different principles that might be hostile to one's own.
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That is to say not even the best city on Aristotle's account
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can afford to be without a foreign policy.
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A good citizen of a democracy
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will not be the good citizen of another kind of regime.
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Partisanship and loyalty to one's own way of life
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are required by a healthy city.
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To put the argument in terms that Polemarchus,
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from Plato's Republic would have known,
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friend and enemy
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are natural and ineradicable categories of political life.
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Just as we cannot be friends with all persons,