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Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | Stephen L. Carter: The Moral Language of War | PBS

Duration: 10:16
Program: Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly #1432
Broadcast Date: Apr. 8, 2011

In a new book called "The Violence of Peace: America's Wars in the Age of Obama," Yale Law School professor Stephen Carter ponders the vocabulary of just and unjust war and the significance of using the American military for humanitarian interventions.

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