Commentary “Can’t anybody here play this game?” That was the title, supposedly quoting the words of legendary Major League baseball manager Casey Stengel, of Jimmy Breslin’s book about the hapless, 120-game losing, 1962 New York Mets. I think the same words could apply to the American foreign policy establishment in the 45 years since another Jimmy, surnamed Carter, reacted against the Kissingerian Realpolitik of the previous eight years by founding his own foreign policy on preaching about “human rights” and international law to the rest of the world. That Jimmy was always better suited to being a parson than a president, so we can understand his way of looking at things. More of a mystery is why it persists, decades after he left office in 1981—and not only in America’s foreign policy establishment, but in both Democratic and Republican parties today. Here, for instance, is the headline on an op-ed …