[lbo-talk] We're all Hezbollah...

[B.]

Here's something mind boggling (to me, anyway) -- I
recently picked up a book called _War & Morality_, ed.
Richard A. Wasserstrom, part of the "Basic Problems of
Philosophy" series. With essay titles like "The
Morality of Obliteration Bombing" I couldn't resist.
Despite my personally being averse to Catholicism, the
introduction notes that war & morality as a serious
philosophical question had up until recently been
pursued mainly by Catholic theologians.

The book opens with "Philosophers of the Western world
have worried, by and large, comparatively little about
the subject of war." And where it has been
contemplated, it's been under the general subject of
legality rather than morality.

-B.

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:

"The 'protecting women and children' and the
battlefield 'code of ethics' proscribing attacking
"defenseless" targets is but a self-serving PR myth
invented by the warrior class and their supporters to
portray themselves as 'gentlemen' rather than savage
butchers that they really are. "