This is so cynical it makes me want to puke. I'd comment more but the whole sentence would end up filtered.
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We must begin by acknowledging the hard truth, Mr. Obama said. We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations acting individually or in concert will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified.
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We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend, Mr. Obama said. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it is easy, but when it is hard.
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Oops, forgot the link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/wo...1prexy.html?hp
The New York Times of course decided that "Just War" belonged in the title of the article.