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December 11, 2009
Is there hope for change?
President Obama's Oslo acceptance speech has drawn surprising praise from conservatives (including Sarah Palin), and I have to say that I too liked what he said about the use of force being "not only necessary but morally justified." It's already being called the "Obama Doctrine" - a notion that foreign policy is a struggle of good and evil, that American exceptionalism has blunted the force of tyranny in the world, and that U.S. military can be a force for good and even harnessed to humanitarian ends.I'll say. You couldn't find a more pacifist setting to deliver a speech like that. Clearly, his intended audience was not the ostensible one in front of him. So maybe I wasn't too far off yesterday when I speculated that his Oslo behavior might be "a bone to conservatives." While it's too early to tell, it is to be sincerely hoped that he means what he said, and that maybe he isn't quite the teleologist he has seemed to be. (Of course, I'd like to see some real, concrete evidence before I succumb to wishful teleological thinking myself.) posted by Eric on 12.11.09 at 09:01 AM |
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So now Obama has how many speeches for lack of foreign policy?