In its foreign policy, the Clinton Administration has skillfully acted out just such a play. With existential drivel about the static relevance of morality, the Administration deliberates among itself, waiting for the solutions to world's problems to appear. The payoff never arrives. Solutions would require the philosophers of the Clinton play to stop deliberating and act. To the Administration, such presuppositions cannot exist apart from a rational and empirical scheme of theistic evidences.
Deliberation is needed to sort out the meaning of right and wrong in a world of shifting relevance.
Philosophizing upon the world's park bench makes for great reading but lousy stage-play. Ethics in foreign policy is not proved by the hoped-for future static encounter with God on the edge of the universe. Ethics in foreign policy is about the present, in which a moral framework guides an administration's moral decision-making in a world of moral right and wrong. Neither should such policy decisions be made under the direction of the shifting political relevance of the day. Such relevance is always a changing script whose denouement vacillates according to the whims of each night's audience, influenced by every passing political storm.