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'Liberal Legacies, Europe’s Totalitarian Era, and the Iraq War: Historical Conjunctures and Comparisons', in Thomas Cushman, Gary Marx, and Christine Williams (eds), A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq (Oakland, CA, 2005; online edn, California Scholarship Online, 22 Mar. 2012
Abstract. This chapter describes the Christian churches' resistance to the US-led military intervention in Iraq which lead to the revival of the just war theory. The just war tradition begins by defining the moral responsibilities of governments, continues with the definition of morally appropriate political ends, and then takes up the questions of means.
A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq, . . Univ. of California, $55 (372pp) ISBN 978-0-520-24555-6
This war, which continues, is a war of ideas as much as a war of armies. It is part of a struggle far more complex than the Cold War, because it engages more than ideology: it engages a religious faith, which means it can claim the authority of God for whatever it wishes to impose.
Abstract. This chapter focuses on the question of when and whether regime change per se is a reasonable justification of military intervention. It then sets down a list of five conditions that must be met for the category of regime change to be an acceptable and its application to the war in Iraq: the new regime must be better than the regime it replaced, it must be a liberal regime that ...
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- Thomas Cushman
But many critics of the war object that humanitarian concerns have little or no role in the motivations of the war’s planners, and therefore humanitarian concerns could not have justified the war. In fact, I think the premise is an unwarranted exaggeration, but I have no wish to defend that claim here.
