A COUPLE of weeks ago we argued that Barack Obama needs to remake the case for humanitarian intervention abroad. And as Mr Obama presented his national-security team today, the four people who joined him on stage and who will be responsible for shaping America's foreign policy—Hillary Clinton, James Jones, Susan Rice, Joe Biden—are all, to varying degrees, humanitarian hawks. …
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