[Peace-discuss] Obama Invokes "Just War, " But Is the War in Afghanistan "Just"?

[E. Wayne Johnson]

Absolutely, Ricky.

It's becoming clearer and clearer who the real heroes and freedom 
fighters are in this conflict.

On 12/10/2009 12:53 PM, Ricky Baldwin wrote:
> A scandalous speech.  Turns the stomach.
> I like this article, though - and I thought it was interesting that 
> the RESISTANCE to US aggression seems to meet more (though still not 
> all) of these criteria than the US activities in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
> Ricky
>
> "Speak your mind even if your voice shakes." - Maggie Kuhn
>
> --- On *Thu, 12/10/09, Robert Naiman /<naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>
>     Subject: [Peace-discuss] Obama Invokes "Just War, " But Is the War
>     in Afghanistan "Just"?
>     To: "Peace-discuss List" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>     Date: Thursday, December 10, 2009, 11:26 AM
>
>     Obama Invokes "Just War," But Is the War in Afghanistan "Just"?
>
>     "Accepting Peace Prize, Obama Evokes 'Just War,'" notes the headline
>     in the New York Times, referring to President Obama's speech accepting
>     the Nobel Peace Prize. President Obama did indeed invoke the concept
>     of a "just war." But tellingly, he did not try to argue that the U.S.
>     war in Afghanistan meets the criteria to be judged as a "just war."
>
>     A plausible explanation for the President's failure to argue that the
>     war in Afghanistan is a "just war" is that he recognizes that such an
>     argument would not be convincing.
>
>     As President Obama noted in his speech, there are criteria involved in
>     the "just war" concept. It isn't just a matter of proclaiming that a
>     war is justified. There are tests.
>
>     This matters, because a substantial part of the U.S. and world
>     population subscribes to the theory of "just war." In particular, more
>     than a fifth of the U.S. population are estimated to identify as
>     Catholics. The concept of "just war" - that wars can be considered
>     "just" only if they meet certain criteria - is an official doctrine of
>     the Catholic Church.
>
>     http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/obama-invokes-just-war-bu_b_387231.html
>
>     http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/12/10/121056/05
>
>     http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/426
>
>
>     --
>     Robert Naiman
>     Just Foreign Policy
>     www.justforeignpolicy.org
>     naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
>     <http://us.mc1138.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=naiman@justforeignpolicy.org>
>     _______________________________________________
>     Peace-discuss mailing list
>     Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
>     <http://us.mc1138.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net>
>     http://lists.chambana.net/cgi-bin/listinfo/peace-discuss
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> Peace-discuss mailing list
> Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
> http://lists.chambana.net/cgi-bin/listinfo/peace-discuss
>