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Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | Moral Questions and Military Intervention | PBS

Duration: 05:00
Program: Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly #1433
Broadcast Date: Apr. 15, 2011

A Yale Law School professor considers what force should be used for in a just world and says intervening militarily to protect people being slaughtered by their own government is "an enormous break with America's practice."

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