Politicians change their mind and break promises all the time. But on foreign policy, their campaign-season talk is less reliable than on other issues — for better or for worse.

Woodrow Wilson ran for reelection on the motto, “He Kept Us Out of War.” In his second term, he didn’t keep us out of war.

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