Word: moralizers
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...also abroad, is a task of unprecedented difficulty and scope. In a world of failed states and separatist movements, it is not always clear who the terrorists are. Our efforts to maintain an international coalition and to eliminate the constituency for terrorism depend heavily on our retaining the moral high ground; the U.S. government must therefore define its mission carefully, so as to mount the most effective and most appropriate campaign against those who threaten our citizens...
...We’re going into a new moral landscape of warfare,” he said...
Asked what number of accidental civilian casualties would be acceptable, he said there was no “magic number” but that one should use a “sense of moral judgment...
...moral mandate is there, but I do not want to entrust the world to American knowledge of Afhani politics,” he said...
...discussed how the Arab world is full of diverse religious views, because religious authority is diffused in Islam. The recent terrorist attack, he said, was one made on the moral responsibility of individual opinions—not by a collective Arab voice...