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

[C. G. Estabrook]

In words that I first saw as a kid inside the Jefferson Memorial in DC,

"Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his 
justice cannot sleep for ever..."


E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
> 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./
> 
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> On 12/10/2009 3:36 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>> 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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