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August 13, 2013
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Jean Bethke Elshtain, a political philosopher at the University of Chicago Divinity School, isn’t surprised the Bush administration is arguing for U.S. action against Iraq in terms of national security and interests rather than just war principles. “If you get Cheney, Rumsfeld and Condi Rice in the room – those are not the terms they’re comfortable with,” said Elshtain. Photo courtesy University of Chicago

(RNS1-OCT03) Jean Bethke Elshtain, a political philosopher at the University of Chicago Divinity School, isn’t surprised the Bush administration is arguing for U.S. action against Iraq in terms of national security and interests rather than just war principles. “If you get Cheney, Rumsfeld and Condi Rice in the room _ those are not the terms they’re comfortable with,” said Elshtain. See RNS-JUSTWAR-ETHIC, transmitted Oct. 3.