President Obama has moved 180° in his world view according to The Wall Street Journal. Whereas his previous stance was that we can all just sit down, drink beer, and respect each other; he now thinks that the use of the military to achieve goals is "just war..." not too much to look at... move along.
Maybe George was right.
Obama Defends 'Just War' at OsloMr. Obama is expected to appear at the Copenhagen Climate Conference to declare that the climategate scandal was "just numbers" and that the decade-long decline in global temperatures was "just a pause."
By ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON and JONATHAN WEISMANOSLO -- President Barack Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize Thursday with an embrace of armed might in the service of a "just war," a sharp change in emphasis from his past rhetoric criticizing the foreign policy of the Bush years.
The address set a new tone for his young administration, which been accused by foreign-policy hawks of being too accommodating to overseas powers and too quick to seek favor abroad.
In accepting his Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama acknowledges the difficulty of accepting a peace prize while engaged in two wars. Video courtesy Nobel Media.Mr. Obama made a muscular defense of American action against enemies, and recognized the existence of "evil" in the globe and the inherent fallibility of human impulses -- core principles of a more traditionally conservative foreign policy.
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