necessary acts

Organizing, marching, boycotting, protesting, singing, demonstrating — all of these, among many others, are true acts of resistance and for Black people, they were and are necessary acts to attain justice and human rights.

Such beliefs serve to normalize and encourage preemptive violence as "necessary" acts of "self-defense."

Woodrow Wilson justified it all by recasting “America’s strategic and political interests as moral imperatives, and its foreign interventions as necessary acts of international responsibility.”

Here’s Paul seizes his moment to pitch his own foreign policy: “We need a new approach, one that emulates Reagan's policies, puts America first, seeks peace, faces war reluctantly, and when necessary acts fully and decisively.”

Though many of the reductions have merit, others need orderly renegotiation so the resulting cuts aren’t just necessary acts of fiscal restraint, but also net pluses for the economy.