Realism and Morality

In the enclosed article Rick Moran argues that President Obama has chosen realism over morality with regard to Iran. I think that a) he's incorrect, and b) that's exactly the choice the president should have made.

I think all this realism vs. morality talk is mistaken because there is, as far as I know, no moral rule at all that says that the United States should encourage people in other countries to get themselves killed. You may recall that a lot of people found the results of such encouragement disheartening in Hungary in 1956 and Iraq in 1991.

And, in any event, the president has to deal with the world as he finds it. That doesn't mean he can't work to change it. It does mean that it isn't very wise to run into a stone wall again and again.