45 - Humane War feat. Samuel Moyn
Good in Theory: A Political Philosophy Podcast
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The Humanity of War
A lot of controversy surrounding the book and a lot of discussion is that it sounds like you're saying that the humanity of war has actually made it easier for America to do more fight more wars. So, okay, it's one thing to say, yes, it's not enough. He could have gone, he could have gone further. And Obama would never have placed the alleged humanity of ongoing war central to that his major speeches on foreign policy. If it didn't matter to someone, it wasn't just him saying it was morally the right thing to do. It mattered to a lot of people. The biggest debates to this day around American war in the past quarter century are around its brutality
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