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This WSWS article "Obama’s preventive war and the end of Nuremberg" by
Richard Hoffman, can be accessed with this link:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/feb2010/nure-f20.shtml
As the article is about 12 pages long, clicking on the PRINT tab at the top
of the the article, allows for a text display that allows for easier reading
which can then be printed for further study.
Here are several paragraphs of introduction:
Obama’s preventive war and the end of Nuremberg
By Richard Hoffman
20 February 2010
US President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech in Oslo last December was
widely seen as a glorification of militarism, rather than a promotion of peace.
In several analyses, the World Socialist Web Site reviewed the speech, in the
context of the continuation and escalation by the Obama administration of the
aggressive militarist foreign policy of the Bush regime.
The speech marked a turning point in world affairs. Obama specifically embraced
the illegal doctrine of “preventive” war in the use of American military power.
In this respect, to the extent that his presidency supposedly represented the
liberal alternative to the foreign policy of the Bush regime, it is now
absolutely clear that, within the American political establishment, there is
unequivocal bi-partisan repudiation of the Nuremberg principles, which
outlawed, and made criminal, the planning and launching of aggressive war.
This article proposes to review the meaning of the Obama speech in the context
of the history and development of international law.
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