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

[E. Wayne Johnson]

The problem is that it is going on long enough that when the people 
finally do rise up,
the gleeful and vengeful dismembering that precedes the overthrow really 
might be quite excessive.

I would advise the perpetrators to begin amendatory negotiations.  (They 
have too much hubris for that!)

    /O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; /
    /happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us./
    /Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth /
    /thy little ones against the stones./




On 12/10/2009 3:36 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
>> Very good article, Bob.  Thank you very much.
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>> Bob quotes a segment from the Just War Doctrine according to the 
>> Catholic
>> Church:
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>> "...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?
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> In a democracy (as we purport to be), with the people, who have both 
> the responsibility and the right to procure the common good:
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> "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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