the churches teaching on just war shouldn’t be something that is very simple I hate to say. anytime you deal with a life issue and trying to justify taking a life even if it isn’t innocent it is tough to justify it because we are all created in the image and likeness of God and even Hitler has the same dignity as the Pope does.
that might be true of any war of self-defense.
Agreed. Not that it would always be easy to discern what was legitimately self-defense, though.
If the competent authority believed it to be self defense, that would probably be sufficient. (As opposed to disinformation aimed at steering public opinion).
What about if there is a lot of money grubbing going on behind the scenes as part of/most of the motive and we just don’t hear about that because the gov’t isn’t stupid so won’t talk about such things. Does that change things at all?
Do some reasearch on the trail of money and who was doing business with Sadam and who supported the war and who did not. It’s interesting. My memory is poor so I forget the details but I read a paper on a topic like this that more or less shocked me.One of the reasons that WMDs were not found was becouse they had been used on Hussin’s own people and on Iran during the Iraqi-Iranin War. Or maybe the ones who were gassed just thought they were gassed.
A main plank of the Demacratic party platform was to keep slavery. They were the ‘anti-war’ party.
No, Church teaching prohibits duels. It is similar to arranging both a suicide and a murder in my opinion.
It is not the numbers that matter, it is the principle of the thing.
No, a duel is immoral.
Only one man would be justified, and only then if he was acting self-defense or defending other innocent people.
That would be kinda epic, but a shootout between FDR and Hitler would end with Hitler winning.
Agreed, this is because the government is given the duty to protect the rights of its citizens. Part of this duty is deciding when to go to war.
Bologna. That was the excuse used. I’m not sure of all the actual reasons, but I bet a lot has to do with people making money off the war.
But if an american raped someone from another country and that country tossed a missle our way we could desimate them in response, killing thousands? Interesting.
But we go to war for oil and control over other nations resources and are told that it is to protect our freedom. The gov’t’s standard line is to scare us and then tell us we need a war or a law to keep us safe. Of course we are never safe, but the gov’t has been using this approach forever, makng us poorer and poorer in the process.
Sources please not anecdotes
Some of it got cut off after I submitted it. Don’t know why. Try this one: ar15.com/archive/topic.html?b=1&f=155&t=815146
arbitragemagazine.com/features/profiting-vs-profiteering/Sources please not anecdotes
So, now it’s our fault that the Iraqis used WMDs on their OWN people because we gave the weapons to the Iraqis. As to the information, nobody came out (like Russia and China), at that time, and said that everybody (like England, Czeck Rep., and US) was wrong because the information was false.
We PUT Sadam in power back in the day. To help him fight afganistan or some country. Then like 20 or 30 years later or whatever we come to take him out. He got in power because of the US Gov’t funded him and supplied him with weapons years and years ago. I’m not too good with history so I forget which country it was against but it’s common knowledge. It’s not a secret.So, now it’s our fault that the Iraqis used WMDs on their OWN people because we gave the weapons to the Iraqis. As to the information, nobody came out (like Russia and China), at that time, and said that everybody (like England, Czeck Rep., and US) was wrong because the information was false.