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The "Just War" Theory
Reader comment on item: Bibliography – My Writings on the Changing Face of Warfare

Submitted by cubed (United States), Aug 15, 2006 at 17:39

Another excellent resource on the current view of how war should be properly conducted - and the reason we haven't won a war (or even had the integrity to formally declare war) since WWII - is the book "Just and Unjust Wars" by Michael Walzer.

This is, unfortunately, the major textbook on the "ethics of warfare" for West Point and other military schools and universities. While many among us have never heard of the book OR of the "Just War" theory, it is, in fact, a formal theory with a long history, and has widely influenced our media, our government institutions (including our politicians and diplomatic corps) and our military policy makers.

What the "Just War" theory advocates isn't anything of the sort; it is a manual on defeatism, a PC handbook on "how not to win - ever." A very clear expose of how the "Just War" sabotages our right to self defense and produces disasters such as the capitulation of Israel to Hezbollah is found in the spring issue of the Objective Standard; the relevant article can be seen at http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/issues/2006-spring/just-war-theory.asp.

The wholesale rejection of the "Just War" theory is crucial to our survival.


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this is academic... [167 words]BobAug 24, 2006 15:40
Do you talk of anything else besides war?
[w/response] [249 words]
Daniel DubeiAug 21, 2006 16:40
Let's Talk about Egypt and Jordan
[w/response] [325 words]
Daniel DubeiAug 24, 2006 22:46
Just a Piece of Paper? [219 words]Daniel DubeiAug 25, 2006 11:17
Moderate Muslims : hard to find [82 words]AlSJAug 19, 2006 19:44
Whitewash of Muslim attacks [72 words]Indigent GunnerAug 18, 2006 15:28
"Ethnic Cleansing" as Hezbollah and Iran's Goal [64 words]KenAug 17, 2006 00:02
Yes, a most insidious change [628 words]ChristinaAug 16, 2006 14:31
⇒ The "Just War" Theory [196 words]cubedAug 15, 2006 17:39

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