In his speech, Mr. Obama also made a philosophical case for military intervention by the United States in support of democratic movements in the Middle East, North Africa and elsewhere around the world.
In doing so, the Democratic president echoed the language of his Republican predecessor while offering a more constrained view of America’s role in helping to sweep away the world’s dictators.
Like former President George W. Bush, Mr. Obama said it could be in the interests of the United States to exercise the military power that it alone possesses in the advancement of freedom. But far more than Mr. Bush, Mr. Obama stressed the need to use that power in the context of multilateralism and cooperation.
(Via Barcepundit)
