Right Makes Might: The President as Political Realist
…cion short of war is constitutive of politics: “Those who claim to respect international law cannot avert their eyes when those laws are flouted.” He was also speaking here to Iran and North Korea. Obama, Niebuhr, and Just War? Most notably, Obama invoked “Just War” four times—more than any president since George H. W. Bush authorized the Persian Gulf War (which Obama also commended). Obama rattled off just war criteria such as last resort, propor…
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