It was in his recalling these painful episodes that Washington warned against “inveterate antipathies” and “passionate attachments” to any nation other than our own. He wrote: The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave... to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.... [Such a] passionate attachment... produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favourite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest . . . where no real common
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