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From: LeoCasey at aol.com
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 6:59 PM
Subject: Just Wars
My original:
And
I recognize that necessity. A just war can be a war in self-defense.
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Ian:
That's what the Japanese and Germans said. Preemptory self-defense is one
of the finer lies in life.
Not a convincing retort, I am afraid. The fact that a concept can be abused
or misused is hardly a refutation of the concept itself.
Leo Casey
United Federation of Teachers
260 Park Avenue South
New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)
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Name one person in the history of the world that has the moral authority to inaugurate death. Not political power, moral authority.
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