Jo Egelhoff of FoxPolitics.net and I will join Joy Cardin for WPR's Week in Review on Friday, Dec. 11 from 8-9 a.m. You can call in during the program at 1-800-642-1234 or email talk@wpr.org.
One topic that will certainly come up is President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance speech. You can watch it below.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
Following-up on your comment on President Obama's Nobel lecture
[nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2009/obama-lecture.html], that it is hard to find a philosopher who thinks the Afghan war satisfied the requirements of the Just War Doctrine, Princeton philosopher Peter Singer, in
_The President of Good and Evil_, argued that neither the Iraq nor Afghan wars met those requirements (see chapters 7 and 8 [www.worldcat.org/oclc/237833848]).
On the other hand, I don't recall that President Obama's Nobel lecture argued that either of those wars satisfied the Just War Doctrine. In the following passage, the President mentioned the fact that the Afghan war initially enjoyed widespread popular support (is that an argument?), and he harkened back to the world's support for the Kuwait war, but I do not recall any argument that the current Iraq war satisfied the Just War Doctrine:
"The world rallied around America after the 9/11 attacks, and continues to support our efforts in Afghanistan, because of the horror of those senseless attacks and the recognized principle of self-defense. Likewise, the world recognized the need to confront Saddam Hussein when he invaded Kuwait – a consensus that sent a clear message to all about the cost of aggression."
Ominously, in light of those last few words, Singer argued (if memory serves me right) that the Iraq war was a war of aggression.
Post a Comment