The Problem with Moral Authority

Phillippe Sands, Vanity Fair: “I asked [former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Doug Feith], whether, in the end, he was at all concerned that the Geneva decision might have diminished America’s moral authority. He was not.”
Doug Feith: “The problem with moral authority, [was] people who should know better, . . ., siding with the assholes, to put it crudely.”