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IAN BURUMA lived and worked in Japan and Hong Kong for many years. He is the author of Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing (Vintage, 2003); The Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and West (Vintage, 2003); Anglomania: A European Love Affair (Orion, 2001); A Japanese Mirror (New American Library, 1985); God’s Dust: A Modern Asian Journey (Noonday, 1990 ...
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 ...
'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
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- Thomas Cushman
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.
