Lots of left-ish soi-disant “public intellectuals” really like
this just war stuff.
But this piece misreads just war theory, which most
certainly does not require that each individual offensive act in war be
justifiable by appeal to self-defense.
Hence it is certainly not a sin against just war theory if the leaked
justice department memo doesn’t, either.
And how many Americans would agree, if asked, that our wars have
to be conducted according to moral rules developed by Saints Ambrose,
Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas?
Pshaw.
By the way, the left, usually so determined to be secular
and even anti-Christian, seems to have adopted Catholic moral theory in
connection with American wars only to be able to beat up America for chronic
and acute non-compliance with its strictures.
Hate America First!
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