On Selective Pacifism & other Oddities

[Bradford DeLong]

>I don't get it. If I oppose _this_ war, I have to oppose _every_ 
>war? Why? What's wrong with traditional just war theory, taught at 
>the Point and Annapolis, under which it can beargued that some wars, 
>e.g., the wara gainst the Nazis. is just, but some other wars, like 
>the US invasion of Vietnam, or theSoviet invasion of Afghanistan, or 
>this war, is unjust? jks

Perhaps the thing "wrong" with traditional just war theory in this 
context is that it points the other way: After 9/11 the Taliban 
government had an obligation to reveal everything it knew about the 
perpetrators, and to turn over all the perpetrators and all the 
material witnesses it could find to the United States government as 
the U.S. government undertook its own investigation.

The failure of the Taliban government to fulfill its obligation was a 
casus belli.

Brad DeLong

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