Against Obama, McCain will have to win the war of principles, not of personalities.

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Trouble is, few people disagree with the moral imperative of a war grounded in humanitarian principles.

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Whether built with delicate sensitivity to materials or dull adherence to principles, the glass box became an icon of Cold War capitalism, a symbol of modernist cosmopolitanism befitting a global superpower in the making.

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But this list is different from the principles behind Britain's post-war social contract which embedded the idea of statutory responsibilities and individual rights.

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Already the tug-of-war is under way among Mr Obama's would-be advisers over the principles that should shape it.

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