Monday, April 25, 2011

Ethics: The Obama Doctrine

America’s foreign policy has had to evolve with developments in world politics. Der. But when 9/11 happened, there was a suddenly new world of threats that no former doctrine could quite contend with. Thus evolved the Bush Doctrine. Naturally not everyone agreed with it. With the changing of the Presidency and the clarifying test of real military action, we are now able to start to see the Obama Doctrine in effect in Libya. What are the key elements of it, and how do they square with traditional Just War Theory? Well, we’ll talk about it.


Obama's Peace Prize Acceptance Speech December 2009

Obama's speech on Libya March 2011


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2 comments:

Coffee Snob said...

Andrew:

A little late in adding this comment, but wanted to say it publically (tho' I called & told Bill as well) - I thought this was a GREAT show. . .well-rouded, historically accurate (tho' I didn't hear a mention of the Monroe Doctrine - but I missed the first bit of the show), and politically balanced.

Keith

April 30, 2011 at 2:39 PM
Andrew Tallman said...

Thanks, Keith. =)

May 2, 2011 at 5:02 PM

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