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

[C. G. Estabrook]

E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
> Very good article, Bob.  Thank you very much.
> 
> Bob quotes a segment from the Just War Doctrine according to the Catholic
> Church:
> 
> "...These are the traditional elements enumerated in what is called the 'just
> war' doctrine. The evaluation of these conditions for moral legitimacy
> belongs to the prudential judgment of those who have responsibility for the 
> common good."
> 
> Where, indeed, lies the responsibility for the Common Good?

In a democracy (as we purport to be), with the people, who have both the 
responsibility and the right to procure the common good:

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. 
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise 
their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to 
dismember or overthrow it."

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