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America's Wars in the Age of Obama
Beast Books
January 2011
On Sale: January 11, 2011
272 pages
ISBN: 0984295178
EAN: 9780984295173
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The man who many considered the peace candidate in the last
election was transformed into a war president,” writes
bestselling author and leading academic Stephen Carter in
The Violence of Peace, his new book decoding what President
Barack Obama’s views on war mean for America and its role in
military conflict, now and going forward. As America winds down a war in Iraq, ratchets up another in
Afghanistan, and continues a global war on terrorism, Carter
delves into the implications of the military philosophy
Obama has adopted over his first two years in office.
Responding to the invitation that Obama himself issued in
his Nobel address, Carter uses the tools of the Western
tradition of just and unjust war to evaluate Obama’s actions
and words about military conflict, offering insight into how
the president will handle existing and future wars, and into
how his judgment will shape America’s fate. Carter also
explores war as a way to defend others from tyrannical
regimes, which Obama has endorsed but not yet tested, and
reveals the surprising ways in which some of the tactics
Obama has used or authorized are more extreme than those of
his predecessor, George W. Bush. “Keeping the nation at peace,” Carter writes, “often
requires battle,” and this book lays bare exactly how
America's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are shaping the way
Obama views the country's role in conflict and peace,
ultimately determining the fate of the nation.
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