Foreign Policy. In the annals of forgetfulness there is nothing quite to compare with the fading from the American mind of the idea of the law of nations. Grenada. We might have benefited from a weekend's pause in which we could have considered our interests rather than merely giving in to our impulses. The mining of Nicaraguan harbors. A practice of deception mutated into a policy of deceit. Iran-Contra. The idea of international law had faded. But...