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7 de nov. de 2005 · Acknowledgments Introduction: The Liberal-Humanitarian Case for the War in Iraq Thomas Cushman PART ONE RECONSIDERING REGIME CHANGE 1 The Case for Regime Change Christopher Hitchens 2 Liberal Legacies, Europe's Totalitarian Era, and the Iraq War: Historical Conjectures and Comparisons Jeffrey Herf 3 Regime Change": The Case of Iraq Jan Narveson 4 In the Murk of It: Iraq Reconsidered Mitchell ...
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A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq, . . Univ. of California, $55 (372pp) ISBN 978-0-520-24555-6
By bringing together isolated, important, and at times iconoclastic voices on the issue of the invasion of Iraq, A Matter of Principle makes for critical and provocative reading."—Michael Barnett, Stassen Professor of International Relations, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
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 ...
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 ...
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.
