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Iraq had become a leading sponsor and advocate of Islamist violence, abandoning its former “secular” rhetoric for tirades in favor of jihad; openly financing the suicide bombers in Israel and the occupied territories; holding conferences that called for holy war; promulgating the crudest forms of anti-Semitism; building mosques named for Saddam Hussein; and maintaining at least arm’s ...
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.
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- Thomas Cushman
Hace 6 días · 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 ...
25 de mar. de 2011 · 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 ...
11 de jul. de 2005 · 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-tors--political figures, public intellectuals, scholars, church leaders, and activists--represent the most powerful views of liberal internationalism.
- Thomas Cushman
A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq, . . Univ. of California, $55 (372pp) ISBN 978-0-520-24555-6
