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From: LeoCasey at aol.com
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 8:24 AM
Subject: Re: Just War
However, there is a considerable gap between resisting or evading immediate
attack, and planning war.
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Absolutely, and that is one of the distinctions that lie at the core of the
just war theory. A war of aggression is not, by defintion, just; a war of
self-defense may be just.
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What is a war of self-defense? All wars begin with an aggressor. Use of passive third person narratives by the aggressor to justify the inuaguration of violence expose the fallacies involved. Ex post "victors justice" models, posing as just war theory fail to adequately parse this distinction. Hence my queries about what constitutes moral authority.
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This begs the key issue of where one draws the line
between wars of aggression and wars of self-defense, but it does allow us to
begin to think more clearly and precisely about these questions.
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Who gets to draw the line is every bit as important; and that is where we need to go especially if we are to help people decode the outright lies coming from the Bush administration.
Ian
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