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A Matter of Principle is the first volume gathering critical voices from around the world to offer an alternative perspective on the prevailing pro-war and anti-war positions. The contribu-torsand#151;political figures, public intellectuals, scholars, church leaders, and activistsand#151;represent the most powerful views of liberal internationalism.
During the projective interpretation of the Iraq conflict by German opponents of the war, the United States and its president slipped into the role of aggressor and breaker of international law, while the fate of the Iraqi people, who in this conception were the target of the American attack, was identified with the suffering of the German population in the hail of Allied bombs during World ...
Abstract. This article examines three arguments according to which the Iraq war has been justified: preemptive or preventive self-defense, law enforcement, and humanitarian rescue. It concludes that for empirical and moral reasons, the Iraq war lacks a just cause. In the course of making that judgment, the article explores moral and practical ...
A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq : Cushman, Thomas: Amazon.com.mx: Libros
The purpose of this chapter is to provide a moral and ethical defense of the war in Iraq. The principal argument of this defense is that the war – while probably illegal from the point of view of most bodies of statutory international law – was morally defensible in its overall consequence: it has objectively liberated a people from an oppressive, long-standing tyranny; destroyed an outlaw ...
When we are dealing with customers as tough as that, there is no alternative to being tough ourselves.”. 11 quotes from A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq: ‘Genocide is the responsibility of the entire world.’.
Contents: Introduction: The liberal-humanitarian case for war in Iraq / Thomas Cushman -- Reconsidering regime change -- The case for regime change / Christopher Hitchens -- Liberal legacies, Europe's totalitarian era and the Iraq war: historical conjunctures and comparisons / Jeffrey Herf -- "Regime change": the case of Iraq / Jan Narveson -- In the murk of it: Iraq reconsidered / Mitchell ...
