From the standpoint of believing in the advantages and justifications of principled leadership, President Trump’s recent escapade intruding into the domestic affairs of Venezuela seems misguided.
I have considered that the efforts of the Caux Round Table to promote a moral capitalism and moral government were very much in harmony with the conviction of George Washington that:
“There is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.”
Interest and virtue can coincide, but it is up to us to bring about that coincidence.
I offer, for your consideration, more of my thoughts here.
Sincerely yours,
Stephen B. Young
Global Executive Director
Caux Round Table for Moral Capitalism